Fun Poll: "If I couldn't live in the U.S., I'd want to move to ____"

St. Barth's.

 

Renouncing US citizenship is very difficult and prejudicial - if found to be for tax purposes (there is a presumption to disprove if you have a certain income level) then you are STILL taxed for 10 years, and it might affect your ability to visit/return to the US.

 

Monaco or UAE for the cars, Greece for the landscapes and history

 

All the guys on here from Dubai, but it's not a choice ? 'Other MiddleEast', I guess..

 

Do you have a link to that ? (10 yr tax)

 

Recent article on renunciation and taxes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/world/18expat.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

I actually had a US tax lawyer in Europe warn me about naturalizing in the US, especially if I might want to return to Canada or move to Europe (which I had planned at the time), because of US' foreign taxation.

 

Where's ARMENIA on this list?????????????????????????? J.K.

 

monaco no doubt

 

Brasil

Or Australia

In a heartbeat either one. Although is Brasil still a little, you know, dangerous?

 

How or can the IRS hunt you down overseas?

 

I chose Ireland. I LOVED it there when I visited a few years ago.

 

Hmm...I may have to switch from South Africa to New Zealand after seeing these pics. Although SA is still pretty hard to deny! Look out for the Kiwis, they can't fly! http://flickr.com/photos/wildernessphotographs/sets/72157594500683486/with/369774538/

 

At some point you will have to get some residency visa, permits or driver's license in a foreign country, and if the US embassy asks that gov't they are likely to get all info pertaining to US citizens in that country. Plus, if you just stop filing taxes, unless you're dead, something is up.

 

What if someone doesn't have a permanent address in the US or even overseas for that matter? i.e. person decides to go on vacation indefinitely and bounce from hotel to hotel, etc. Maybe file the return online somehow?

 

It's kinda funny if you think about it:
Folks are dying to come here, walking over the border, being smuggled in, and here we are discussing where we would rather be besides here.

I wonder, if you are born here, and, say, your parents move abroad when you are 6 months old, if, say 40 yrs later, the US Gov't can come after
you for taxes, never mind the fact you have not lived here for 40 years... (?)

 

Yes, they can and have done so. Looking around the other day, I found another news article that cited that same situation, lady moved to Norway from Seattle like 45 years ago, married a Norwegian and has been there ever since. She'll have to pay US estate taxes.

 

Just because it is better than Mexico doesn't mean it's better than everywhere!

 

I lived in spain back in 1970-1973 when my dad was in the military,we lived in madrid and I went to high school on base,I also lived in england for three years 1963-1966

 

Italy for me. Tons of family that lives there and for all of the history.

 

Italy for me as well!

Antony

 

i voted costa rica, too many things to do, too nice of a country, plus some great coffee plantations,

 

Ireland or Canada.

 

Monaco