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Americans Abroad

riverbendviewgal

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3. If you happened to be born in UK

Reply to davidpdx (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 02:22 PM

Mar 2014

while your mom visited . Would you want to file UK taxes (at about 2k annually , even if you owned nothing to the UK) while you never lived in the UK all your life or worked there?

UK has resident based taxes so they don't require filing taxes filed for life , even if you don't live there, like the USA.

Is that fair?

Americans abroad live in countries that will assist them in times of war, because most live in peaceful countries and don't need to worry about that. It is an argument made on DU previous posts.

Down load that submission. It is astounding.

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Elizabeth May says FATCA a threat to Canadian rights and sovereignty. [View all] riverbendviewgal Mar 2014 OP

That is an interesting take on it davidpdx Mar 2014 #1

America and Eritrea are the only countries in the world that use CBT - citizen based taxation riverbendviewgal Mar 2014 #2

If you happened to be born in UK riverbendviewgal Mar 2014 #3