• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      If you make over X thousand dollars you have to pay taxes on it to the US even if you don’t live there. The value is something like 160k.

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        19 days ago

        Does that matter if you’ve already cut all other ties and live somewhere else? I mean, actually paying the taxes seems like more of an active choice if you’re living in a different jurisdiction, isn’t it?

        • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world
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          Extradition is a thing and no matter how much I hate what the rich have made America, I still would prefer to settle our debts. I lived there, I was raised there, I owe them my taxes like a good citizen - but now that I’m gone if I ever get close to having to pay taxes to them again I will remove my citizenship. They no longer provide me any services, in fact I’d argue they hurt me now more than they help me, and I want to become an EU citizen first and foremost.

          I’ve always viewed countries as businesses which one should leave when their service and product is bad.

        • Saleh@feddit.org
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          You still need a valid passport, and for becoming Citizen often further documents like birth certificates and certificates of the parents, no older than x-months and with an approval-stamp by the embassy, that these are indeed real documents.