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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Americans Giving Up US Passports In Droves

Americans Giving Up Passports Jump Sixfold as Tougher Rules Loom
Americans Giving Up Passports Jump Sixfold as Tougher Rules Loom
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Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.
Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008.
The U.S., the only nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside, is searching for tax cheats in offshore centers, including Switzerland, as the government tries to curb the budget deficit. Shunned by Swiss and German banks and facing tougher asset-disclosure rules under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, more of the estimated 6 million Americans living overseas are weighing the cost of holding a U.S. passport. ...

I guess the allure of living under the first black president isn't worth if you have to pay huge taxes for a country that can't control their spending.

Yes We Can ... Spend until the money stops....

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