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>You can leave the country and stop paying taxes, you just can’t come back. No, you can't. You have to renounce your US Citizenship to stop paying taxes in th
by shiroiuma 3y ago
>You can leave the country and stop paying taxes, you just can’t come back.
No, you can't. You have to renounce your US Citizenship to stop paying taxes in the US, no matter where you live. Renouncing requires acquiring citizenship in a new country, which isn't that easy: just ask anyone who's tried to naturalize in the US.
>Again, you’re part of a society and you can’t opt out, even if you don’t want to pay.
You're not really a part of the society if you don't live there, but if you're a US Citizen, you're still required to pay both federal and state taxes, even if you've never lived in the US in the first place.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoAcquiring another citizenship before renouncing is a given, since you can't legally be stateless. How else would it work? In any case, I've never renounced a citizenship, but I can imagine countries making it hard. Is the process itself difficult, are there requirements other than the international law one of not being stateless?
- shiroiuma 3y agoRenouncing isn't hard for most people, except Americans who have to pay thousands of dollars in fees. Acquiring the new citizenship is what's hard; most decent countries don't just hand that out.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoThe point is that of course you have to find citizenship in another country before renouncing your only other citizenship, otherwise you'd have no citizenship.