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Americans living abroad are not even allowed to give up citizenship to avoid paying U.S. taxes. That's wrong, along with many other facts in this article.
by activepeanut 14y ago
Americans living abroad are not even allowed to give up
citizenship to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
That's wrong, along with many other facts in this article.
- tobias3 14y agoI guess you cannot avoid a few misses in that much information. I found most of it to be true. That said, I think it glosses over the fact that US states have huge differences and he has only experienced a subset of them.
- randallsquared 14y agoIt depends on what "allowed" means. The penalty for doing so exceeds that for many minor crimes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States
- vacri 14y agoWas expatriation a serious problem for the US? It seems a bit of a severe step to take for someone who is already wealthy. Not to mention it raises the question - if someone renounces their citizenship, what right does the country have to tax them? Doesn't tax come with the right of representation?
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- darkestkhan 14y agoAuthor probably never went to Poland - there is much more drunk people in than in Germany. And I never experienced problems with Germans in Germany. And untaxed work in Germany was quite prevalent prior to last year May. And some other things that should be corrected.
- stupandaus 14y agoI think he meant that if you want to avoid paying U.S. taxes, you have to give up citizenship, which is true to my understanding.
- arjunnarayan 14y agoNo, you have to pay taxes for 7 years post loss of citizenship.