The Foreign Service Journal, March 2014

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | MARCH 2014 51 AFSA NEWS a Master’s degree in global politics. She has experience in the State Department and the United Nations. Connie Zhang is pursuing an undergraduate degree from The George Washington Uni- versity. As a sophomore, she has not chosen a major, but is interested in international business, public policy, eco- nomics and communication. Virtual Angela Mswabuki is our vir- tual intern. She is currently a freshman at the University of Delaware, majoring in Inter- national Relations and minor- ing in Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. Scholarship Program Kerrin Murphy is the scholar- ship program intern. She is a senior at the State Univer- sity of New York at Fredonia, majoring in Spanish and minoring in international studies. She has studied in Mexico and Puerto Rico. n Editorial Bret Matera will be work- ing with The Foreign Service Journal staff . He is a junior at American University, double majoring in economics and international relations. Bret spent a semester as a program assistant for the Atlantic Treaty Association in Brussels. His home town is Chapel Hill, N.C. Executive Office Connor Doyle is a senior majoring in international affairs at The George Wash- ington University. Patrick Niceforo is a senior at the University of Maryland, majoring in government and politics, with a focus on international relations and duel minors in Korean and terrorism studies. Legislative Affairs Doreen El-Roeiy recently graduated from the London School of Economics with AFSA is pleased to welcome our new crop of interns, who will be with us through the spring semester. This incoming group is our largest ever, and we look forward to working with them over the next few months. We also thank departing interns Tom van der Stelt, Valerie Sanders and Lauren Stabler for their contributions and wish them the best. Advertising Yuting ‘Cibil’ Lu attends the Washington Semester at American University, study- ing journalism and foreign policy. Her home school is Xiamen University in Xia- men, China, where she is a graduate student in commu- nications. Awards and Outreach Floyd Jones is a junior at The George Washington University, double-majoring in international affairs and music. Floyd is proficient in Spanish and fluent in Krio. He mentors inner-city youth on weekends and leads a gospel choir in Maryland. Communications Julian Steiner continues as the communications intern. From Vienna, Austria, he is a graduate student at The George Washington Universi- ty’s Elliott School of Interna- tional Affairs. AFSAWelcomes Spring Semester Interns AFSA Tax Guide 2013 Correction: New York The AFSA Tax Guide 2013 contains an error concerning the tax status of Foreign Service officers assigned to USUN New York. The 2001 opinion from the New York tax authorities cited in the AFSA Tax Guide was superseded in 2009. The Office of Tax Policy Analysis, Tax- payer Guidance Division, issued Tax Memo TSB-M-09(2)I on Jan. 16, 2009, amending the definition of permanent place of abode in the personal income tax regulations. The new rules determine that Foreign Service members assigned to USUN have a permanent place of abode in the state of New York, and are therefore subject to New York and New York City income taxes. The 2009 memo can be found at www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/memos/income/ m09_2i.pdf. A subsequent 2011 tax bulletin can be found at: www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and _ bulls/tg_bulletins/pit/permanent_place_of_abode.htm. We thank USUN staff for drawin g our attention to this important change and apologize for any inconvenience caused.  Connie Zhang Patrick Niceforo Bret Matera Doreen El-Roeiy Julian Steiner Floyd Jones Kerrin Murphy Yuting Cibil Lu Connor Doyle