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Benefits in the News > By Subject > International, expatriate issues Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines In Japan, All-Payer Rate Setting Under Tight Government Control Proving to Be Effective at Containing Costs Employers Becoming More Generous with Corporate Relocation Benefits [Opinion] Text of ICI Comments on Proposed IRS Regs Under Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (PDF) [Opinion] American Benefits Council Comment Letter to IRS on Priority Guidance Plan (PDF) Can a Public Pension Plan File Bankruptcy? Historic Northern Mariana Islands Chapter 11 Case Might Tell [Guidance Overview] 2011 Tax Year FATCA Reporting by U.S. Persons of Participation in Foreign Retirement Plans and Deferred Compensation (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Puerto Rico Tax Amnesty Program Extension Could Help Retirement Plans Correct Failures with Former PR Code's Withholding and Reporting Requirements (PDF) GAO Report on Defined Contribution Plans: Approaches in Other Countries Offer Beneficial Strategies in Several Areas Traveling4Health Unveils Interactive Map of Medical Travel and Retirement Health Destinations [Guidance Overview] Have You Assumed Pension Termination Liability? Long Arm of the U.S. PBGC Reaches Non-U.S. Parent Bailout by U.S. Taxpayers Could Resolve Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund Bankruptcy Trouble in Paradise: Public Pension Plan of U.S. Commonwealth in Pacific Files for Bankruptcy Medical Tourists Getting Root Canals, Knee Surgeries and Hip Replacements at Foreign Hospitals [Guidance Overview] Court Finds Jurisdiction Exists over Foreign Parent in Pension Plan Liability Suit [Guidance Overview] New Foreign Financial Asset Reporting Requirement with Deadline of April 17, 2012 [Guidance Overview] New FATCA Regulations Solve Some Issues for Pension Plans, But Other Problems Remain (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Retirement Plans with Puerto Rico Employees Can File Form 5500 Rather than Puerto Rico Annual Return Puerto Rican Treasury Issues Guidance Regarding Title I ERISA Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] US Taxpayers Participating in Non-US Retirement Plans: When is There an FBAR or FATCA Reporting Obligation? (PDF) Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 test Cost Major Concern with International Relocation Assignments and Determining ROI Remains an Issue [Guidance Overview] PR Treasury Allows Certain Puerto Rico Qualified Retirement Plans to File Copy of Form 5500 Instead of Form 480.70 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Reissues Notice, Enhances Transition Relief for Plans Qualified in Puerto Rico Relocation Benefits Are on the Move British Pensions Face £85 Billion [Guidance Overview] Puerto Rico Treasury Dept. Guidance for Qualification of Retirement Plans under 2011 PR Code and Relief for Retroactive Qualification under 1994 PR Code (PDF) Global Pensions Asset Study, 2012 (PDF) Global Pension Fund Assets Hit Record High in 2011 [Guidance Overview] IRS Extension of Transition Relief for Puerto Rico Qualified Plans to Participate in U.S. Group Trusts and Deadline to Transfer Assets [Guidance Overview] Recent Developments Affecting Puerto Rico Retirement Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Puerto Rico Treasury Department Issues New Income Tax Withholding Tables on Wages Paid in 2012 (PDF) Nearly a Third of Employers Willing to Cover Relocation Now [Guidance Overview] IRS Extension and Expansion of Relief Provided for Transfer of Assets from U.S. Retirement Plans to Retirement Plans in Puerto Rico (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Extends Transition Relief for Plans Qualified in Puerto Rico [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice 2012-6: Qualified Pension, Profit-Sharing, and Stock Bonus Plans under the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code (PDF) [Opinion] A Transatlantic Crisis for Pension Plans: Italy, Ireland, and Greece Are Just the Beginning (PDF) The Strengths and Failures of Incentive Mechanisms in Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems Social Security in an International Context Developing a Global Policy for Controlling Your Defined Contribution Plans China's New Foreign Exchange Control Rule on Equity Incentive Plans for Employees in Chinese Affiliates How to Explain High U.S. Health Care Spending? A Look at Supply, Utilization, Prices and Quality in Other Countries Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy