Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by serge2k on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:26PM
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Because people were renouncing to avoid the IRS, since US tax laws are completely screwed up.
Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by Scoundreller on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:19PM
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Painful for those not trying to avoid taxes. A drop in the bucket for those trying to avoid taxes...
Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by nitrogen on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:19PM
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Regarding your last paragraph, maybe something else is in the pipeline that depends on it being difficult to renounce citizenship?
Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by CrazyCatDog on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:33PM
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Revoking citizenship is a costly exercise. It was previously subsidized by all tax-payers, now it isn't.
Not that it matters to the price/cost of doing it, but what do you think are the most common reasons for forfeiting US citizenship? I suspect it's tax-evasion.
Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by the_mitsuhiko on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:28PM
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> what do you think are the most common reasons for forfeiting US citizenship? I suspect it's tax-evasion.
Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by themartorana on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:42PM
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Despite their lack of personal or business ties to the United States, accidental Americans have the same U.S. tax filing and payment obligations...
There's a business model! Claim someone is a citizen, boom they owe taxes!
Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by 2a0c40 on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:02PM
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Please read this:
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2011/12/14/about-the-isaac-brock...
Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
by themartorana on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:48PM
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That's fucked up.
Really not cool. Probably justify it by saying it takes a lot of time to process paperwork (that they created the requirement for in the first place...)
Did you know that it also now costs $2350 for someone to renounce their US citizenship?
It also takes an undefined amount of time (typically 12+ months) and they publish your name online on a State Department shame list of ex-Americans.
A decade ago, it was free to renounce your US citizenship. Around 2009 they started charging $450, and then suddenly raised the fee to $2350 in 2014.