Laura Snyder

Tax law advisor and advocate for AARO

LAURA SNYDER is an advocate for Americans living outside the United States. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO) and a co-founder of Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation (SEAT). Originally from Illinois, she has lived in Europe, mostly in France, since 1995. She holds a BA and JD from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and a DEA from the University of Paris 1. She is a graduate of the Trium Executive MBA program (an alliance of NYU Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and HEC School of Management) and completed a PhD with the University of Westminster (London). She is an attorney who has worked for international law ﬁrms and companies. She recently served as the sole international member of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP), a federal advisory committee to the IRS.

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Tax Challenges Faced by Americans Living Overseas

When Americans leave the United States to live long-term in another country, many are surprised to learn that the U.S tax regime comes with them. While this may, at first, appear to be benign, for most Americans it is anything but. The United States imposes punitive taxation and reporting requirements on income streams and assets that are “foreign.” From the perspective of the United States, all non-U.S. income and assets are “foreign,” even if they are local from the perspective of the American living in another country.