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Re:Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is '... by WincysWife on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:00PM (#27716126)
The sovereign citizens trip up because they image there is some legal loophole to allow them to opt-out. There is not. But there should be.
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Re:Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is '... by carabiner on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:14PM (#27716311)
But you're basically on the same page with their sentiments, right?
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Re:Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is '... by vkou on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:02PM (#27716155)
That legal loophole exists. They can leave the country and renounce their citizenship.
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Re:Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is '... by ceilingcorner on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:03PM (#27716173)
Exit taxes are pretty rough. You also cannot renounce citizenship if your explicit reason is to avoid taxes.

Hotel California indeed.

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Re:Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is '... by vkou on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:05PM (#27716198)
If you have no intention of coming back, there is next to no recourse against you.
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Re:Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is '... by ralph84 on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:20PM (#27716394)
Good luck getting a bank account anywhere except in the most remote places of the world if you left the US with unpaid taxes. Everywhere else the banks will comply with FATCA and want nothing to do with you [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

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Re:Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is '... by vkou on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:50PM (#27716703)
Okay, so you're not entitled to skip out on owed obligations, but there will be no future ones.
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