Ex-American citizens are suing the US government because they say the $2,350 fee they paid to renounce their citizenships is too high.
    • Hyperreality@kbin.social
      22·
      1 year ago

      Imagine a scenario where you gained Italian citizenship through an accident of birth. Your parents were on holiday, your mother went into labour a bit earlier than expected.

      Is the only reason you wouldn’t want to be Italian that you want to avoid paying tax there?

        • Hyperreality@kbin.social
          32·
          1 year ago

          If it wasn’t taxes, they’d have done it sooner,

          The Guardian:

          By some calculations, there may be as many as 30,000 people among the estimated 5 million to 9 million US citizens living abroad who would like to begin the renunciation process but can’t.

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          Marie Sock, the first woman to stand as a presidential candidate in the Gambia, was forced to pull out of the race recently after she failed to get any response to her request to renounce her US nationality from the US embassy.

          …

          He became disillusioned when he learned that because his son was born outside the US he would not be eligible for US citizenship, and yet because of James’s citizenship he would treated as if he were a US taxpayer. That struck him as a modern form of taxation without representation. For the past year he has been trying to get through to an official who will help him renounce his citizenship, without success. “I never asked for US citizenship, and now I’m not even allowed to give it up.”

          https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/31/americans-seeking-renounce-citizenship-stuck