Timeline for Do you need to pay US taxes if you are a US citizen by birth, who was never in the USA?
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| Oct 27, 2017 at 13:06 | comment | added | Make Mark | Trump is proposing a territorial corporate tax system (itep.org/…). Is there any chance income tax will also be made territorial? | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 16:25 | comment | added | littleadv | Having been able to show your other claims to be not true, I'll leave the burden of proof on you this time. | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 8:44 | comment | added | user26732 | @littleadv: in the early 00's I helped OFW's fill out their returns. You asked for a source, I gave it to you. Assume what you like. | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 0:16 | comment | added | littleadv | @user26732 changed? They didn't change, you were just wrong. If you want me to take a look at something - please provide a link, until then I'll just assume you made things up. | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | user26732 | I'm glad to see that they changed Philippine law. For Myanmar, take a look at O'Kane, "Doing Business in Myanmar" (Andalus 2014). | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 6:19 | comment | added | littleadv | @user26732 for Philippines this has been disproved. taxsummaries.pwc.com/uk/taxsummaries/wwts.nsf/ID/… I'm pretty sure you're wrong about Myanmar too, but do provide sources. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 6:17 | comment | added | littleadv | @Pacerier might. More than that - he might pay double tax even if he resides in a country that does have a tax treaty. From personal experience. | |
| Dec 30, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | Pacerier | @littleadv, Would a US citizen end up having to pay double tax if he resides in a country that doesn't have "double tax treaty" with the US? | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 17:57 | vote | accept | SztupY♦ | ||
| Jan 14, 2015 at 16:29 | comment | added | littleadv | Can you provide sources? | |
| Jan 14, 2015 at 16:18 | comment | added | user26732 | The Philippines and Myanmar also impose a tax on the income of their nonresident citizens. Many Americans believe, and I have read that the US is the "only" country that taxes its citizens overseas. But it is indeed a member of a very small group. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 23:03 | comment | added | littleadv | @user102008 I had a discussion about that before on this forum. Eritrea is not in the same category. They have a special expat tax, not a regular income tax which is charged regardless of residency. Also, Eritrean tax has been declared, ironically, as illegal - by the US. Besides, it speaks volumes about the US that the only other country they can compare themselves to is one of the most undeveloped in the Third world. I'd be ashamed had I been an American. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 19:30 | comment | added | user102008 | @littleadv: "the only country in the world" According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Citizenship Eritrea also taxes foreign income of nonresident citizens. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 6:33 | comment | added | littleadv | @ScottEarle Who, Gene Kelly? He would never!!! :-D | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 6:29 | comment | added | Scott Earle♦ | This has not gone unnoticed. I have experience of Americans in Paris, complaining that people in small shops don't speak much English. Or accept USD. :) | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 5:55 | comment | added | littleadv | @Scott the only country in the world. They don't need to. Average American never leaves his State, let alone country. They just can't comprehend that there's a whole big world outside of their borders. Take it from me, I live in California. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 4:59 | comment | added | Scott Earle♦ | The US is one of the few countries (or the only country?) to tax its citizens who are living abroad. As a UK citizen myself, I do not understand how they can justify it. I guess they don't need to? | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 4:36 | comment | added | littleadv | @ScottEarle I really hope the IRS will continue chasing the wealthy, because if they start chasing all the regular folks - they can drive millions of people into poverty just by charging the penalties on not filing paperwork, before even assessing any taxes. Americans have draconian penalties on their citizens abroad or immigrants. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 4:31 | comment | added | Scott Earle♦ | I only added the 'extremely wealthy' bit because the IRS is more likely to chase someone with huge amounts of cash than someone with very little. The bit about diplomats is also interesting, as I had thought that anyone born on US soil could claim citizenship. No trolling - it's a genuine question to which I did not know the answer. I guess I have read so many threads about "I believe that I qualify for US citizenship, how do I claim it?" that I had not thought of it the other way round. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 4:25 | comment | added | littleadv | @ScottEarle it doesn't matter how wealthy they are. Irrelevant piece of information. People born on the US soil are generally US citizens by birth (except for very specific cases like children of diplomats). As I said - US taxes all its citizens. Even the extremely wealthy ones. There's no such thing as "claiming US citizenship". You either are a citizen or are not. Nothing to claim. If you are not - you can naturalize into one, you cannot claim being one. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 4:22 | comment | added | Scott Earle♦ | What about people born on US soil to non-US parents a long long time ago, who have never claimed US citizenship, or been interested in claiming US citizenship, and yet are extremely wealthy? | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 3:30 | history | answered | littleadv | CC BY-SA 3.0 |