Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad welcomes two new Board members with strong Asia experience

Johanna Dishongh and Jackson Cox have extensive experience being and working with Americans and American businesses in the Asia-Pacific region.

Washington, D.C. — Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad is delighted to welcome two new members to its Board. Their membership further expands the depth of our collective experience on tax issues facing Americans abroad as well as our reach at a time Americans abroad are pressing their case for residence-based taxation.  

Johanna Dishongh currently serves as US Liaison for the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas (FAWCO), where she has previously served as Human Rights Target Program Chair and as VP for Global Issues. FAWCO represents the interest of American women working in the private sector abroad.

Jackson Cox is Interim President of the American Association of the Indo-Pacific. He has 20 years of experience leading comprehensive development, policy, government relations, and public affairs projects for clients in Washington, D.C. and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

“We look forward to working with Johanna and Jackson to make sure our voice both reflects the needs of Americans living in Asia and rallies them to support the end of double taxation, which President Trump has said he will end ‘once and for all,’” said Brandon Mitchener, Executive Director of Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad.

Military and business experience

Johanna was born in Japan into a career military family and moved several times during her youth until the family returned home to Texas. She has lived in Germany, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and currently resides in The Netherlands. She earned a BBA with a concentration in Human Resource Management from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and worked in all aspects of human resources for a US Fortune 500 Company until moving abroad in 1998. Her advocacy work grew through work with FAWCO.

Jackson is from Johnson City, Tennessee and a graduate of Belmont University in Nashville. His consulting firm, Woodmont International, which is based in Bangkok, has positioned numerous multi-national companies and large projects for long-term success in some of the region’s most challenging markets.

Prior to founding Woodmont International, Mr. Cox worked in the international political sector, where he managed projects in Mongolia and Cambodia for the International Republican Institute. He has also worked as an advisor to U.S. Senator Bill Frist. He believes deeply in free enterprise and open markets and has been a strong voice of support for these principles and for American business leadership in Asia.

Jackson served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Asia-Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce from 2015-2018. APCAC is the association of 29 American Chambers of Commerce in Asia and represents the collective interests of over 15,000 American businesses and over 50,000 overseas American executives in the Asia-Pacific region. Jackson is also the Founding Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Mongolia – the official affiliate office of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Mongolia and the largest foreign business association in Mongolia.

Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad is a U.S. 501(c)(4) U.S. non-profit organization committed to ending the U.S. practice of citizenship-based taxation by default and giving Americans abroad the option of residence-based taxation like that practiced by every other democratic country in the world.