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Re:No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1870) by colejohnson66 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @09:30PM (#11891225)
You can't renounce your US citizenship for quite a while after you leave. During that time you have to pay US taxes.
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Re:No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1870) by int_19h on Sunday June 12, 2016 @11:33PM (#11891570)
Or without paying a fee. Which is currently $2,350.

(Ironically, you have to pay more to renounce US citizenship, then you have to pay in all the various filing fees etc when acquiring citizenship through naturalization.)

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Re:No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1870) by cbd1984 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @11:01PM (#11891484)
As a practical matter, you can evade US taxes if you have no financial contact with the US; the IRS can deem you liable for any amount of taxes and it won't have any effect on you if they're unable to collect them.
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Re:No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1870) by colejohnson66 on Monday June 13, 2016 @02:45PM (#11896256)
But if you have family you left in the US, you're almost certainly gonna have financial contact with them.
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