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FAQ: Can American nationals filing as nonresident aliens claim treaty benefits while living in a foreign country?
QUESTION 1: Can U.S. nationals abroad and filing as nonresident aliens claim treaty benefits? ANSWER 1: Here’s the clean, legally grounded answer — and it cuts through a lot of confusion that comes from mixing immigration status with tax‑treaty status. Short answer: No. U.S. nationals abroad cannot claim treaty benefits, even if they file as…
Read MoreHOW TO: Handing reporting and withholding for American nationals filing as “nonresident aliens” not engaged in privileges-no Chapter 3 reporting or withholding, but subject to K-1 as foreignC personPRI partners
INTRODUCTION: This series of questions establishes that if you are filing as a “nonresident alien” who is an American national of “U.S. national” under 22 C.F.R. §51.1 and 8 U.S.C. §1101(a)(22) then: They are FREE AS A BIRD! Unless of course they make “trade or business” elections by pursuing privileged deductions under 26 U.S.C. §873(b)(3).…
Read MoreCopilot: Does the Fifth Amendment still protect people not voluntarily engaged in excise taxable activities and who make no elections?
INTRODUCTION: This series of questions probes whether Brushaber or any other federal case waives the protections of the Fifth Amendment because of the Sixteenth Amendment or Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1. The conclusion is NO. This subject is important, because income taxation geographically internal to the Constitutional “United States” is a proprietary power rather…
Read MorePROOF OF FACTS: Payments to me as a U.S. national are “excluded” from “Gross Income” under I.R.C. 872
INTRODUCTION: The following form on our website takes the position that all earnings of a U.S. national who makes no elections are “excluded”. Attachment to 1040NR Return for U.S. national filing as a “Nontaxpayer” and Private Party, FTSIGhttps://ftsig.org/attachment-to-1040nr-return-for-us-national-filing-as-a-nontaxpayer/ If you would like a PROCESS that applies this article to computing your taxable income as an…
Read MoreHOW TO: Opening an account or obtaining financial services in Satisfaction of BSA/AML requirements without an SSN or TIN
1. VERBIAGE TO USE IN A MANDATORY ATTACHMENT TO THE APPLICATION Dear sir, I’m not interested internal policy that might implement banking discrimination, but in faithfully complying with the minimum requirements of what the law allows. Thank you kindly for your excellent customer services and your compliance with the law. I look forward to receiving…
Read MoreHOW TO: Catalog of Deception Techniques, Third Rail Avoidance Tactics, and Defenses
Table of Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION: Those in government and the legal profession intent on stealing your property, illegally enlarging their power, or exploiting your legal ignorance to deceive you into doing something they want without authority or compensation will frequently engage in sophistry to disguise the nature of you activities. For an explanation of sophistry,…
Read MoreHOW TO: Getting a Refund of all taxes paid as a “Nonresident Alien” Nontaxpayer U.S. national
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. PROCEDURE: 2. AUTHORITIES: 3. FORMS: 4. BACKGROUND: The 1040NR filing procedure on this site: 5. EQUITY JURISDICTION OVER TAX REFUND SUITS: 5.1. Introduction An equity approach only applies to matters involving the proprietorial powers over public property and privileges dispensed to American nationals (U.S. nationals) who are NRA50 or even abroad…
Read MoreCopilot: Court Doctrines dealing with Proprietary Power
INTRODUCTION: Taxation of U.S. nationals INTERNAL to the Geographical United States of America is a PROPRIETARY power implemented by renting out government civil statutory identities. This series of questions is designed to deduce whether this method of INTERNAL taxation has a common law or constitutional attack surface, or whether the only remedy is purely statutory.…
Read MoreCarney’s message to the world: The rules no longer protect you
EDITORIAL: Ironically, all the arguments Carney makes at a national level about sovereignty and autonomy apply equally to personal sovereignty and autonomy: Thank you, Mr. Carney, for reminding us that what countries must do in relation to each other apply just as readily WITHIN a country to individuals in relation to their own regional government,…
Read MoreHOW TO: How to distinguish “sovereign power” from “proprietary power” in the context of taxation
TABLE OF CONTENTS: “The rich rules over the poor,And the borrower is servant to the lender.”[Prov. 22:7, Bible, NKJV] “The State in such cases exercises no greater right than an individual may exercise over the use of his own property when leased or loaned to others. The conditions upon which the privilege shall be enjoyed being…
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