From Left to Right: Robert Hager, AmCham Chairman; Ambassador Patrick Theros, USQBC President; Theresa Dunn, AmCham Executive Director; Jay Turk, AmCham 2nd Vice Chairman.
The US-Qatar Business Council had the pleasure again to host our American Chamber colleagues from Qatar on their annual “door knock” visit at a roundtable lunch to discuss efforts to relieve American companies doing business abroad from the most onerous tax regime imposed by any county on its citizens abroad. The discussion centered on efforts to persuade both Congress and the Administration that this unfair treatment of Americans abroad has a direct pernicious effect on American exports. The tax regime has raised the cost to American and foreign companies of hiring American executives to punitive levels. I expressed particular criticism that US would tax education allowances for American kids living in countries with inadequate (or worse) public school systems while providing untaxed education allowances to military and diplomatic dependents in the same countries.
