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I fully support you not paying those post citizenship taxes if you end up in that situation, for all the good it does you. ;) To be clear, in case I wasn't eno
by kbenson 4y ago
I fully support you not paying those post citizenship taxes if you end up in that situation, for all the good it does you. ;)
To be clear, in case I wasn't enough above, I'm not saying I completely agree with all the specifics of the U.S. current law on what and how much to tax expats, just that on a conceptual level I don't have a problem with some amount of taxation in exchange for representation (among other things), and people that disagree with that entirely should consider what their best choice is.
Citizens have the right to vote though, so they can try to effect change like all the rest of us, and that includes efforts to change how expats are taxed.
- lmm 4y agoI think it would be reasonable to tax one of non-resident citizens or non-citizen residents, but not full taxation of both. And residence is far more of a choice than citizenship is.
- kbenson 4y agoI don't see a problem with taxing both, as long as the taxes are not equivalent. I don't think some minimal amount of taxation for the ability to rely on the U.S. and return whenever you want and to vote is too much to ask. That's also how you keep rich people from living outside the U.S. but traveling to it and conducting all business within it to avoid taxes.
- lmm 4y ago> I don't see a problem with taxing both, as long as the taxes are not equivalent. I don't think some minimal amount of taxation for the ability to rely on the U.S. and return whenever you want and to vote is too much to ask. Some kind of theoretical minimal citizenship taxation might be reasonable. The current US taxation regime certainly isn't.