Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality
by em3rgent0rdr on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:02AM
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> "the concept of taxation of Americans abroad dates back to the Civil War period"
I'm not surprised, but could you provide some references on this...I am curious to read.
Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality
by withinboredom on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:43AM
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Just guessing, but I assume the Union wanted to continue to tax the Confederates who no longer lived in the Union because even though the succeeded from the Union, they were still Union citizens by birth.
Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality
by sterlind on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:15AM
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seems unlikely. the Union didn't recognize the legitimacy of Confederate secession (hence, you know, the war.) the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to rebel states, as an example. they may have had trouble collecting taxes, what with the bullets and all, but amending the tax code doesn't help that.
Re:On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality
by withinboredom on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:22AM
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Someone actually expanded on it down the page as a way to punish deserters.
Beyond taxation, the limitations with American institutions when being domiciled abroad put you into a terrible edge-case with needing to crutch on someone stateside with an address. So much stupidity.
One addendum: while FATCA is newish and bad, the concept of taxation of Americans abroad dates back to the Civil War period. FATCA only made an existing injury worse.