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The US doesn't like losing tax cattle.

• KennyBlanken 5y ago
  The US expects you to pay your bar tab before you peel out of the parking lot.
  • jacquesm 5y ago
    No, this goes much further than that. They also want a slice of all the other bar tabs that you will run up in the future abroad.
    • KennyBlanken 5y ago
      The author of the article in question very specifically complains about having to settle up her tax bill and fix her tax accounting before she's allowed to renounce her citizenship, like this was some massive travesty of justice. She also doesn't complain about paying taxes, but having her accounts reported to the IRS, and having to disclose the fact that she has access to funds in accounts not in her name....as well as not being as represented as she feels she should be from said taxation.
      • jacquesm 5y ago
        That's a very small detail, there are a whole slew of posts on this subject, why pick out that one item?
• rootusrootus 5y ago
  She wasn't paying taxes. And it costs more in enforcement than it brings in taxes anyway.