{"id":122983,"date":"2019-12-12T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/12\/eu-joins-fight-against-us-tax-on-accidental-americans\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T13:40:49","slug":"eu-joins-fight-against-us-tax-on-accidental-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=122983","title":{"rendered":"EU joins fight against US tax on &#039;accidental Americans&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels pushes US to dilute rules on dual-nationality citizens unknowingly liable for American taxesThe EU has joined the fight against a US tax law that has put tens of thousands of British citizens at risk of having their bank accounts frozen.In a letter to the US Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, the Council of the EU \u2013 the bloc\u2019s main decision-making body \u2013 called on the US to clarify rules affecting so-called \u201caccidental Americans\u201d, who left the US when they were just months or years old and may have never been aware they owed American taxes. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/dec\/12\/eu-joins-fight-against-us-tax-on-accidental-americans\" target=\"_blank\">EU joins fight against US tax on &#039;accidental Americans&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels pushes US to dilute rules on dual-nationality citizens unknowingly liable for American taxesThe EU has joined the fight against a US tax law that has put tens of thousands of British citizens at risk of having their bank accounts frozen.In a letter to the US Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}