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And then you slip up, the IRS finds out, and on a connecting flight on your way to another country you get arrested for tax evasion.
by ihattendorf 5y ago
And then you slip up, the IRS finds out, and on a connecting flight on your way to another country you get arrested for tax evasion.
- bingohbangoh 5y agoIt's a misdemeanor to not file, its a felony to lie when you do file. Ergo, they can't call Interpol to get you for not filing. (correct me if you're a tax accountant, but I'm 99.999% positive on that first statement and 80% confident on the second)
- ihattendorf 5y agoNot a tax accountant, but while just failing to file is a misdemeanor, if you actually owed money and it can be shown that you willfully attempted to evade paying taxes owed, that's a felony (I.R.C. § 7201). Now, chances are they don't find out, or if they do you can play innocent and pay a fine. Personally, if I were in this situation I would either file, renounce, or never set foot on US soil.
- bingohbangoh 5y agoIt’s difficult to renounce and you never know if being in the US may become necessary. People who renounce their American citizenship do so with the funds to overcome this or because they’re committed to living somewhere else.
- emodendroket 5y agoNot that I think it's good advice but it is very rare for connecting flights to go through the US, since it requires everybody to go through immigration even if they're not staying in the US.
- Klonoar 5y agoEh, it's not as rare as you'd think - there's literature on how to avoid it: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Avoiding_travel_through_the_United_States https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Avoiding_travel_through_the_U...