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How do you not know that you’re a US citizen? Surely that’s an edge case? The price of renouncing your US citizenship went from around $500 to just under $3000
by mmaunder 6y ago
How do you not know that you’re a US citizen? Surely that’s an edge case?
The price of renouncing your US citizenship went from around $500 to just under $3000, so the key issue seems to be to make renouncing more accessible.
If filing IRS paperwork no matter where you reside seems an onerous obligation for a citizen, try compulsory military service or currency export controls, both of which the US does not have.
- dkjaudyeqooe 6y ago"Selective Service" is a form of conscription in the US, but is not mandatory routine military service.
- genoissedba 6y agoTypically happens when a child is born in the US to non-US citizens who return to their home country. Often they do not realize that simply being born in the US creates citizenship (many countries do not have birth citizenship). There have been court cases in the US when a family comes to the US on vacation and one of the parents gets arrested for failure to file tax returns - the birth happened in the US and the hospital filed the paperwork and the computers remember. As others have mentioned, it isn't just a case of filing IRS paperwork. I know many non-US banks will refuse to do business with someone if they discover the person is a US citizen because the bank paperwork is not worth it.