Organization of Americans residing outside the USA
American Citizens Abroad, Inc.
Formation
1978
Founder
Andy Sundberg
Headquarters
2001 L Street N.W.. Suite 500. Washington, DC 20036
American Citizens Abroad, Inc. (ACA) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit, non-partisan organization, organized as a Delaware corporation. Its sister organization, American Citizens Abroad Global Foundation (ACAGF), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit non-partisan charitable organization focused on education and research. ACA is a leading representative of American citizens residing outside the USA.
ACA was founded in 1978 by the late Andy Sundberg and several other American citizens residing in Geneva Switzerland and neighboring France.[1] In 2014 the principle offices were relocated to Washington D.C.
ACA maintains close contacts with the Americans Abroad Caucus, a caucus within the U.S. Congress originally established in 2007 under the direction of former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. ACA interfaces with U.S. government administrations and other agencies to educate these offices on the effects of U.S. legislation and regulations on U.S. citizens living and working overseas.[2] ACA publishes a quarterly newsletter for its members with information on new legislation, rules and events which affect U.S. citizens, whether living overseas or in the USA.[3]
ACA's web site also contains information on issues of concern to Americans overseas, including transmission of citizenship to children born abroad, taxation[4] and voting. On taxation, ACA has written various pieces in its ongoing efforts to preserve the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), which is vital for Americans living and working overseas to avoid full double taxation.[5]
ACA endorses adoption of Residence-based taxation (RBT) to alleviate the compliance and double taxation issues arising from the current system of Citizenship-based taxation (CBT).[6] ACA has published a side-by-side comparative study of how changes in the current tax regime could be made to move to an RBT system of taxation.[7]
ACA played a significant role in improving the ballot request form used for absentee voting.[8] Banking is another area of current activity to counteract the disadvantages felt by American citizens abroad, who often cannot open new bank accounts, neither in the USA because they have no address there to satisfy the Patriot Act, nor overseas because of the extra paperwork requirements imposed by the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).[9][10] ACA endorses a Same Country Exception (SCE) for FATCA reporting for U.S. citizens living and working overseas whose in-country financial accounts should not be considered "foreign."
ACA works with U.S. embassies and other groups in a bipartisan manner on issues of common concern; it has co-organized town meetings around the world. In 2013 ACA founder, the late Andy Sundberg produced a 10-page report "Issues of Concern for U.S. Citizens Working Abroad."[11][12]
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^Bachmann, Helena (31 January 2013). "Why Americans Working Abroad Are Ditching Their U.S. Citizenships". Time. Retrieved 11 March 2013. 'FATCA is the straw that broke the camel's back,' says Jackie Bugnion, director of American Citizens Abroad (ACA), a Geneva-based expatriate advocacy group. Because this legislation forces local banks to invest in expensive new infrastructure in order to comply with the IRS rules, 'access to foreign financial institutions is being shut off and Americans abroad are treated like criminals,' she adds.
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^Wallace, Ellen (14 February 2013). "US-Switzerland sign controversial Fatca agreement (update)". GenevaLunch news. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2013. One of the groups, American Citizens Abroad, which is based in Geneva, says it 'continues to combat the negative effects of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). In December 2012, after meetings with the Treasury Department and in a follow up letter, ACA pressed for the inclusion in Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs) and in the recently finalized FATCA regulations of provisions incentivizing Foreign Financial Institutions to avoid discriminating against Americans. Treasury has included this language in most of the new IGAs and the provision has found its way into the final FATCA regulations.'
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