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Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

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Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

#11

I was quoted in this article. I do lots and lots of this work -- helping people log out of the USA cleanly and permanently. AMA.

Im very interested in this. Which countries are best for expats from a quality of life and ease of obtaining citizenship standpoint?

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Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

#12

I was quoted in this article. I do lots and lots of this work -- helping people log out of the USA cleanly and permanently. AMA.

How often does the WSJ ask you for a quote on this issue? I ask because they seem to run this same story every 6 months or so.

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

#13
I wish the title of the article better reflected the real point - explained in the article itself - instead of saying "escape tax rules", with all the implications

The fact is, more and more of us with solid middle-class incomes and perfectly normal lives are becoming increasingly concerned about laws that are poorly explained and advertised to us, but with huge potential penalties if we go unaware of them. These are exclusive to people living in other countries - if they imposed some of these on non-expatriates, there would be a riot.

It is becoming a very stressful burden.

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

#14
post #8

>"U.S. citizenship is the most coveted citizenship in the world. To give it up, it has to be pretty serious," It's pretty serious to give up your birth citizenship no matter where you're from. But, as someone with American citizenship, this doesn't ring particularly true for me. There are a number of passports I would trade, today, right now, for the one I currently hold. Anyone claiming American citizenship is the m…

magamiako, your account is hell-banned.

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

#15

I was quoted in this article. I do lots and lots of this work -- helping people log out of the USA cleanly and permanently. AMA.

Im very interested in this. Which countries are best for expats from a quality of life and ease of obtaining citizenship standpoint?

If you have lots of money, you can buy citizenship and a sweet tax deal from one of Switzerland's municipalities/cantons.

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

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post #14
post #8

>"U.S. citizenship is the most coveted citizenship in the world. To give it up, it has to be pretty serious," It's pretty serious to give up your birth citizenship no matter where you're from. But, as someone with American citizenship, this doesn't ring particularly true for me. There are a number of passports I would trade, today, right now, for the one I currently hold. Anyone claiming American citizenship is the m…

magamiako, your account is hell-banned.

How do you see hell-banned posts?

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

#17

I was quoted in this article. I do lots and lots of this work -- helping people log out of the USA cleanly and permanently. AMA.

How often does the WSJ ask you for a quote on this issue? I ask because they seem to run this same story every 6 months or so.

The news cycle for this topic is quarterly since the government releases statistics on that time cycle. That's why you see the topic written about fairly frequently.

I talk to journalists all the time. I try to be helpful in some times they thank me by putting a quote in the article. Sometimes not.

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

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post #8

>"U.S. citizenship is the most coveted citizenship in the world. To give it up, it has to be pretty serious," It's pretty serious to give up your birth citizenship no matter where you're from. But, as someone with American citizenship, this doesn't ring particularly true for me. There are a number of passports I would trade, today, right now, for the one I currently hold. Anyone claiming American citizenship is the m…

What countries's citizenships would you suppose is coveted by more people worldwide than the US?

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

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post #16
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

magamiako, your account is hell-banned.

How do you see hell-banned posts?

Go to your 'profile' (click your username in the upper right corner when logged in) and set 'showdead' to 'yes'.

Re: Expatriate Americans Break Up With Uncle Sam to Escape Tax Rules

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post #8

>"U.S. citizenship is the most coveted citizenship in the world. To give it up, it has to be pretty serious," It's pretty serious to give up your birth citizenship no matter where you're from. But, as someone with American citizenship, this doesn't ring particularly true for me. There are a number of passports I would trade, today, right now, for the one I currently hold. Anyone claiming American citizenship is the m…

What countries's citizenships would you suppose is coveted by more people worldwide than the US?

canada?
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