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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by andylynch on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:15AM (#21013488)
Maybe the US could look to France again - since they do just this in their National Assembly, and also have representatives for citizens aboard in the Senate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituencies_for_French_re...
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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by fhrow4484 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:38AM (#21013583)
Maybe France could not look at the US and also start taxing citizens everywhere in the world: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec... (french source)
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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by cm2187 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:13AM (#21014307)
That’s pretty bad, you could end up with two countries claiming you are fiscally resident in their country at the same time.

France has actually considered taxing French citizens abroad like the US. It comes regularly during presidential campaigns. I think the last serious attempt was Hollande. They backed down because it would require to renegotiate every tax treaty and they didn’t want to open that door.

But I think it will happen one day.

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