Would you renounce your citizenship?

[Kulindahr]

Not until I knew where else I was going to end up.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Not until I knew where else I was going to end up.

Kulindahria.

 

[frankfrank]

I understand that if you leave the United States to live elsewhere, you are still required to pay USA taxes (as well as taxes wherever you live) for the rest of your life, UNLESS you renounce your U. S. citizenship.

Is my understanding correct?

No wonder they make renouncement so difficult. The U.S. doesn't want to lose those cash cows.

Oops...did I just call people CATTLE?

Or maybe chattel?

All the same.

 

[otters]

I understand that if you leave the United States to live elsewhere, you are still required to pay USA taxes (as well as taxes wherever you live) for the rest of your life, UNLESS you renounce your U. S. citizenship.

Is my understanding correct?

Well, it's a bit more complicated. It depends on the particular Double Tax Avoidance Agreement.

 

[star-warrior]

Governments are trying to claw money from people who access its services wherever and whatever the cause. If you're going to renounce your citizenship on account of a slight delay and a fee for processing your paperwork, then that seems rather childish.

Citizen examinations incur fees for the prospective newcomer who wishes to naturalise or gain citizenship. The high fees also designed to deter the opportunistic people who want in to exploit the system.

I change my passport once every ten years. If you view the fee as spread over that time frame, it works out at pennies you stingy git.

 

[mikey3000]

I am an American.

If the man that I loved were from another nation, and he had strong feelings about living there, it is negotiable.

But Ron, I'd never ask you to give up your citizenship. Oh! You meant Pete again? Sorry... never mind...

 

[chrisrobin]

I would. In a New York minute!

 

[cgymike]

In a nutshell, this.

Fascinating ....an aspect hadn't considered and one that is quite cultural.

So much for taxes.....sometimes taxes take a holiday to real human quotient....but death of course never does.

 

[cgymike]

I would. In a New York minute!

Explain....if you would. Because, once you do it...it is hard to undo if not impossible..

 

[cgymike]

Well, it's a bit more complicated. It depends on the particular Double Tax Avoidance Agreement.

Consult your Tax Counsel. Quite complex and is according to Tax Treaties.

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Not until I knew where else I was going to end up.

But yeah...you could end up in the UK...cold, foggy, but not redneck.....

 

[cgymike]

I am an American.

If the man that I loved were from another nation, and he had strong feelings about living there, it is negotiable.

Good answer Ron...keep your options open.

 

[cgymike]

I agree; apart from the fact that though I pay my taxes I am unable to vote. I find that slightly unfair; take my money but give me no rights in return. Mind you as friends have said if I took out French citizenship I would be able to vote.

I prefer to remain English in the end; free to flee back to the homeland as France collapses economically into a right mess.

France is a mess .....

 

[Yooper]

I'm an American with a US Passport currently sitting in a Hotel about 3 miles from the Canadian border.

I've been invited to a special event on the other side of the bridge tomorrow which I would love to attend.

However, I'm driving a rental car that doesn't exactly match the contract...the first one died on me and the rental company exchanged it for me about 200 miles from the rental site; so the contract now doesn't match the actual car. I have inquired with the locals and find I probably wouldn't have a problem getting IN to Canada; but would probably have a huge hassle getting OUT.

So if I get stuck in Canada, would I stay? The Partner has landed immigrant status but we're not married.

This whole thing (citizenship, border crossings, etc.) fries my brain.

Sorry about the slightly off topic post.

The question is would I renounce my citizenship? Probably not, but if The Partner and I got married (which is legal a few miles from here), and moved up there, I could probably do something else if that is his desire.

 

[Beachguyj]

I never would.

 

[Kulindahr]

Consult your Tax Counsel. Quite complex and is according to Tax Treaties.

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But yeah...you could end up in the UK...cold, foggy, but not redneck.....

LOL

But do they have beaches where I can enjoy nature au natural?

 

[Kulindahr]

I'm an American with a US Passport currently sitting in a Hotel about 3 miles from the Canadian border.

I've been invited to a special event on the other side of the bridge tomorrow which I would love to attend.

However, I'm driving a rental car that doesn't exactly match the contract...the first one died on me and the rental company exchanged it for me about 200 miles from the rental site; so the contract now doesn't match the actual car. I have inquired with the locals and find I probably wouldn't have a problem getting IN to Canada; but would probably have a huge hassle getting OUT.

Thank G W Bush for that -- until he started signing police state legislation, a copy of a US birth certificate was sufficient to get you back across the border.

 

[HoodedRat]

Maybe.
Why not.
It's merely an accident of birth that I am English.
I didn't actually choose to be born here.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

I don't see why I wouldn't if I had reason to - it's not like I was born in America to begin with.

 

[cgymike]

Maybe.
Why not.
It's merely an accident of birth that I am English.
I didn't actually choose to be born here.

I still think being born in any monarchy would be an absolute nightmare.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

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