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Americans Abroad

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1. All of the news I've read on this is showing that for alot of Americans abroad

Reply to riverbendviewgal (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 06:36 PM

Jan 2014

FATCA was the gateway to completely shedding US citizenship. Between being overly taxed and having to put together numerous tax forms, alot of people see no reason to do it and are just getting rid of the problem altogether.

And yes, none of these people are millionaires. Just regular working folks that happen to live away from the country of their birth.

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Today's News from France. - FATCA: making Americans non-Americans [View all] riverbendviewgal Jan 2014 OP

All of the news I've read on this is showing that for alot of Americans abroad Number23 Jan 2014 #1

You are correct riverbendviewgal Jan 2014 #2

I know several American-born Japanese-English translators Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2014 #3

Are they aware of FATCA?? riverbendviewgal Jan 2014 #4