Help! Is anyone facing/has faced this recently?
DH is a dual UK/US national from birth. (English Dad, American Mum, born in the US but left for the UK as a baby and never lived or worked there since). He received what we now know is a "FATCA" letter recently and after copious googling and increasing panic, it looks like he is supposed to file tax returns to the US and potentially pay tax on the funds he holds in his ISA. Luckily, they aren't threatening to close his account....yet but the internet says that is what's happening in other countries!
We're still flapping but becoming resigned to the fact that, we have to pay to enter a foreign tax system in the first place before we can exit and renounce his US citizenship if we are to even plan for our future retirement. We're still at the going backwards & forwards stage - should we/shouldn't we? It's so unfair? What do we do? How would they know? We can't lie/nor do we want to? At the same time, we don't want to pay ANY tax to a foreign government on our already taxed UK income. He's always been PAYE here! Is the final solution renouncement but this process which will involve backfiling tax returns which we should never have to do, in the first place and will costs thousands (yes, we've got a few general quotes for the work).
We really want to keep hold of his stocks and shares ISA. Do we only really need to sell the funds in them but keep the actual direct company shares? No-one seems to admit to having anything other than cash ISAs but is that because they have already sold them in advance of filing for the first time? No idea what to do without paying even more for expensive legal/tax advice.
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To not want to pay tax as an "Accidental American."
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budinbloom · 08/06/2018 15:06
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