U.S. Citizens and Green Card Holders Residing in Canada and Abroad - R...

On July 10, 2015 a I wrote about the “Major Updates To The Foreign Affairs Manual On U.S. Citizenship Renunciation Procedures“. That post included:
8. Form 4079 is NOT required for “renunciation cases” – but may be useful for the DOS…
While Form DS – 4079, Request for Determination of Possible Loss of United States Citizenship, is not standard or typically necessary for renunciation cases, where there is a question about intent it may prove useful....

See comments here and here.
Some of the interesting Comments include:
Great job Keith. Hearing Jen (?) speak was very powerful. Even with understanding what is going on with this mess, to hear her speak just opened the wound a little wider if possible....

Great post: How much US CBT extracts from the economies of other nations https://t.co/YGx2qxJkQL – #YouCantMakeThisUp
— Citizenship Lawyer (@ExpatriationLaw) October 30, 2015
Everybody knows that U.S. “citizenship taxation” extracts capital from other nations and transfers it to the U.S. Treasury. The above tweet references an interesting Facebook post that demonstrates “CBT Capital Extraction” in action....

I came across the two following interesting article/comments on the same day at about the same time. They are significant NOT because they focus (as most of these articles do) on why Americans abroad
must
should come into U.S. tax compliance. Rather the focus on what it means to live as a U.S. Tax Compliant American abroad (something I have written on here)....