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Countries do have laws that apply even when you leave the country. For example, Americans living abroad still have to pay taxes.
by dec0dedab0de 7mo ago
Countries do have laws that apply even when you leave the country. For example, Americans living abroad still have to pay taxes.
- dijit 7mo agoExtraterritorial taxation is extremely rare; and its less of a law and more of a “cost of citizenship” since you’re allowed to get rid of it.
- maxlybbert 7mo agoThe US can be very creative about when its jurisdiction applies ( https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/94-166 https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/94-166 ). Manuel Noriega and “el Chapo” Guzman were both convicted of crimes they committed outside the US but that caused other people to commit crimes inside the US. Traveling to countries for child sex abuse is illegal and severely punished, although it appears that the law is about the traveling with intent, and not (officially) about the actions that take place overseas: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexual-exploitation-children https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/extraterritor... .