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Offtopic: You were faster than my comment! I understand the Yubikey is popular but I do not understand the why the Wi-Fi dongle is popular. Any ideas?
Someone know a good 2.4/5.0 GHz wifi adapter for these kind of things?
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Can you give up your american passport and then stop or do you have to do it for the rest of your life?
It costs over a grand to quit the club known as "citizenship" you're going to want citizenship in wherever you reside first when you give up US citizenship (you could choose to be stateless, but that makes more problems than it solves). Doing this does not absolve you of existing debts in the eyes of the IRS. And finally, you'll be interviewed at the consulate and if your stated reason for giving up citizenship is "t…
> you'll be denied a visa if you ever want to visit the US again.
Do you have a source for this?
Or how about from a library. https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=edward...
Given that there are like... seven copies in U.S. libraries, I think that's probably terrible advice.
Also there are more than seven copies on order in the Brooklyn library system alone: https://borrow.bklynlibrary.org/r1s/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1...
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Can you give up your american passport and then stop or do you have to do it for the rest of your life?
You can renounce citizenship. There is a large multithousands dollar "fee" to do so. And if they find out you did so to avoid paying taxes (ex. renouncing citizenship and then turn around to cash out some Bitcoin) they can still go after you for taxes. Most citizens never hit the threshold to actually pay except if you file from a known tax haven. Income up to $115k is untaxed and any other taxes you do pay are deduc…
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Can you give up your american passport and then stop or do you have to do it for the rest of your life?
It costs over a grand to quit the club known as "citizenship" you're going to want citizenship in wherever you reside first when you give up US citizenship (you could choose to be stateless, but that makes more problems than it solves). Doing this does not absolve you of existing debts in the eyes of the IRS. And finally, you'll be interviewed at the consulate and if your stated reason for giving up citizenship is "t…
Does anyone know how much money he gets from every book / ebook? I think buying it is, at least for some people, very much a support Snowden thought.
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Why does it matter? My brother in law lived in Costa Rica for 10+ years. He never had to pay a single bit of tax. I know a few people in Europe with higher salaries and they have never paid a cent either. I’ve yet to meet anyone who lived overseas and had to pay the IRS.
> He never had to pay a single bit of tax. I know a few people in Europe with higher salaries and they have never paid a cent either. He didn't say pay taxes; he said file taxes. Every year I have to tell the US government how much I made, and then explain why I don't owe them any money (i.e., already paid tax on it to the UK). It's a stressful hassle even if you don't end up owing anything.
I’m asking if you ever had to pay taxes? Plenty of people complain about filing paper work but I’ve never met anyone who owed anything.
I really only want read the story told by Snowden's bank accounts and use of cash. Pretty sure this isn't that.
from your tone you obviously already think you know the answers.
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Offtopic: You were faster than my comment! I understand the Yubikey is popular but I do not understand the why the Wi-Fi dongle is popular. Any ideas?
Someone know a good 2.4/5.0 GHz wifi adapter for these kind of things?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you give up your american passport and then stop or do you have to do it for the rest of your life?
You can renounce citizenship. There is a large multithousands dollar "fee" to do so. And if they find out you did so to avoid paying taxes (ex. renouncing citizenship and then turn around to cash out some Bitcoin) they can still go after you for taxes. Most citizens never hit the threshold to actually pay except if you file from a known tax haven. Income up to $115k is untaxed and any other taxes you do pay are deduc…
It's not as simple as it first seems.
If you claim the foreign earned income exemption (FEIE) so you don't pay anything on the first $115k or whatever, then you can't claim a credit for all the taxes you paid in the country where you live. You can only claim a portion.
So, if your income goes up above some certain amount, you're better off (lower US tax bill) giving up the FEIE so you can get a credit for all foreign taxes paid.
But, if you do that, then you can't claim FEIE again within 5 years, unless you get special permission from the IRS. To apply for this permission (with no guarantee) you must pay a fee of a few thousand USD to the IRS.