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Everything You Need to Know: "Expatriation"- Giving up a Green Card (LTR) or US Citizenship 2 Credits

Feb 28, 2024, 12:30 PM ET

Everything You Need to Know: "Expatriation"- Giving up a Green Card (LTR) or US Citizenship 2 Credits

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Feb 28, 2024, 12:30 PM ET

Learning Objective

  • To explain the various ways a US citizen can “expatriate” and which carry greater tax risks and issues.
  • To discuss how a green card holder is considered to “expatriate” – you will be surprised.
  • To explore the IRC Section 877 and 877A “expatriation” regime rules – Exit Tax and how the tax applies to various assets including the principal residence, IRAs/401(k)s/Coverdell’s, US and foreign pensions, interests in trusts.
  • To identify who will be treated as a CE subject to the harsh expatriation regime and learn planning techniques to help avoid the triggers.
  • To analyze how US recipients of gifts or an inheritance from a CE will be subject to a 40% transfer tax; how proposed regulations treat all such US recipients as “guilty” unless they can prove the gift or bequest was not given to them by a CE.
  • To explore how to use possible exceptions to CE status for younger persons or certain dual nationals who have had limited US physical presence.
  • To look at how to compute a client’s “net worth” for purposes of the Net Worth test triggering CE status.
  • To explain traps and issues involved in the computing net worth of married couples.
  • To analyze what it means to meet the tax compliance test for expatriation purposes. 
  • To analyze what to do if your client has not been tax compliant but has already expatriated.
  • To discuss the Reed Amendment and possible ban on re-entry to the US. How much of a risk is this? Realistically, we will examine how much of a risk this really is.

Course Overview

Some of your clients are US citizens who may be thinking of giving up their citizenship. This number may be small, but many of your clients are green card holders. 

How many green card holders truly understand what will happen to them if they hold the card for 8 “tax years” (that can be far less than 8 calendar years!) and then relinquish the card? 

How many understand that merely because the card has “expired” for immigration purposes, the mere expiration does not let them off the hook for tax purposes?

Green card holders with expired cards remain liable for paying US tax as tax residents. In addition, those “expired” years count in determining if they have held the card long enough to be subject to the “expatriation” tax regime once the card is formally relinquished or administrative action is taken.

If the US citizen giving up citizenship, or the green card holder giving up the card is classified as a “covered expatriate” (CE), the expatriation regime applies. The regime will impose an “exit tax” on a deemed sale of the client’s worldwide assets. Additionally, a 40% transfer tax will be imposed on any US recipients of a gift or inheritance from the CE at any time in the future.

Understanding how to advise clients about the complex tax aspects of the US “expatriation” tax regimes can create a whole new line of business for tax advisors, enrolled agents, and return preparers seeking to expand their US tax practice. 

Don’t lose potential big business opportunities because you do not fully understand the expatriation rules. The regimes should be understood by any client who is thinking of obtaining a green card or US citizenship, as well as by those thinking of relinquishing the card or citizenship.

Expatriation matters have grown in importance over the years as more and more individuals are divorcing from the United States. The IRS now has an audit campaign in place for individuals expatriating any time after June 2008. It is aggressively seeking unpaid exit tax and penalties.  Now more than ever, tax professionals need to understand the expatriation rules and how to engage in constructive tax planning for clients to escape the harsh results. This CPE course provides all the information you need.

This CE/CPE Tax Course will provide an in-depth examination of the overall framework and rules surrounding the expatriation tax rules. This is one of the most complex and misunderstood areas in US international tax. The rules have changed several times over the years, adding to the complexity. My CPE course makes it easy and digestible. 

Major topics included: 

  • Broad Overview: How to Approach an Expatriation Case
  • How to Approach: First - Which Laws Apply to your Client?
  • How to Expatriate / Terminate US status?
  • “Tax Compliance” – What? When? 
  • Form 8854: Initial and Annual Expatriation Statement
  • Options For Getting Into Tax Compliance
  • Form 8854 and Certification of Tax Compliance
  • Deemed Sale of Principal Residence
  • Additional Tax Burdens if CE
  • Reducing Net Worth – Gifting Plans

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Pre-requisites

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About Instructor

With over 35 years of US tax and international experience, Virginia has been a member of the NYS Bar since 1984. Practicing US tax overseas since 1986, Virginia’s practice has focused on clients in Asia and the Middle East. She provides expert insight into tax planning and compliance for American expats and foreign persons having any US connections.

Virginia has an expertise in cross-border transactions and structuring, FATCA, regaining US tax compliance with previously unreported foreign income, assets or accounts, expatriation tax planning, and providing specialist advice for international families in numerous areas of US international tax. Working with tax and attorney colleagues across the globe, Virginia excels in solving cross-border and multi-jurisdictional tax matters and has developed a unique and sought-after specialty in analyzing the US tax consequences of transactions involving Sharia law and the use of UAE “foundations” in US tax planning.

Virginia’s tax advice is highly knowledgeable, reliable and solution-focused. Having assisted Asian and Middle Eastern families for decades, she appreciates the sensitive and special situations involved in multi-national families. Virginia has worked with international law and accounting firms (Deloitte), major banks (including HSBC), and trust companies. Early in her career she worked with the top-tier NY law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

Virginia is a Bloomberg tax author and an avid tax blogger for many years; her work is highly regarded and recognized internationally. Her Twitter Account @VLJeker has been listed in Forbes, Top 100 Must-Follow Tax Twitter Accounts and she is named by Bloomberg as a tax professional to follow on LinkedIn. Tax Notes International recognized Virginia as a preeminent US tax professional, profiling her international tax practice (here). Listen to a short podcast posted in Forbes to hear Virginia discuss how she established her tax practice abroad, the challenge of balancing family life with career, and recent international tax issues.

Virginia has been quoted in the New York Times, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and is regularly quoted in local news and publications. Virginia has a passion for US international tax and her contributions to the field are prolific: interviewed by CNN, local television appearances, regularly speaking at conferences and seminars, and publishing a vast array of scholarly works on US tax issues, some of which have been referenced by other attorneys or organizations both to the US courts and US Congress

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David Lesperance,

This webinar is critical for any advisor who is having a client contemplating leaving the US tax system by either renouncing their US citizenship or relinquishing their US Green Card. Virginia’s depth of knowledge, experience and expertise as laid out in this presentation will quickly dispel the myth that this is a DIY or amateur job, especially for HNW Americans. The fiscal damage that can be done in overpaying tax upon departure or laying a significant future tax burden on US heirs will make the cost of proper advice seem like a rounding error.

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Jeanne Oconnell, EA

Instructor very knowledgeable. Presentation excellent. Thank you.

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