The rules create an incentive for foreign employers to cease investing in America, avoid hiring Americans, or both. Ordinary working class and middle-class Americans living abroad are getting caught up in a net intended to catch much bigger fish: Banks are refusing to take on American teachers, businessmen, engineers, doctors, au pairs and even American salespeople living overseas promoting the sale of American exports, say observers. The second-order effects of the law, however, aren’t limited to fat cats hiding massive amounts of assets. Jason Van Steenwyck of Nerd Wallet Investing notes some other unintended consequences. A just cause of the American Revolution was rebuking a British government that taxed American colonists overseas on the basis that they were British subjects … We have arrived at a point where citizens of many foreign countries have more freedoms than Americans. elections, violates that founding mantra. … Remember the American Revolution rallying cry, “No taxation without representation”? Taxing Americans who live abroad, most of whom do not vote in U.S. government get the arrogance to think it has the right to any earnings produced by Americans anywhere else on the globe? Our federal government is the only government that imposes such a burden on its citizens, and that includes undemocratic countries like China. Smith says today’s federal government is as bad as the one ejected by the colonists in 1776. Writing for the Palm Beach, Fla.-based Biz Pac Review, John R. They must also pay a 30% withholding tax on any deferred compensation, which includes pension plans and stock options. Their assets are treated as if liquidated at the time of expatriation, and any net unrealized gain over $651,000 is taxed as income. The expatriation tax applies, with limited exceptions, to those who earned at least $151,000 in 2012 have a net worth of $2-million or more on the date of their expatriation or have failed to properly file taxes for any of the past five years. citizen must pay a $450 filing fee and an expatriation or exit tax. A miffed Uncle Sam dings departing citizens with a hefty exit tax, say Muzaffar Chishti and Faye Hipsman at Migration Information Source. Many would say the IRS is only trying to get what it is owed, but critics say that in trying to track down the wealthy tax-dodgers, ordinary people are being dragged into an expensive and time-consuming form-filling nightmare. authorities could know a lot more than they have in the past. But now FATCA means they have to be more rigorous or face huge fines, in the knowledge that the U.S. They have always had to file tax returns and disclose foreign accounts on a form called the FBAR, although in practice many didn’t. Suddenly, some expats are waking up in a cold sweat.
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which of course has serious implications for the country’s still-faltering economy.Īs Tom Geoghegan reports for the BBC, the number of expatriate Americans saying goodbye has rocketed - to 1,131 in the second quarter, compared with only 189 in the same period in 2012.
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Many also plan to pull back on their investments in the U.S. More damagingly, spooked foreign financial institutions are refusing to accept Americans living abroad as customers. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.