The time is coming near to when I must surrender. In my country of Sweden, the real Swedish people are being mapped, while the US persons remain out there unidentified. It’s time to do what is right for my Sweden and for you to do what is right your country too. I must turn myself in., and so should you.
My country is spending more than $25 per person in order to find me. This must stop.
I know that I am worth 30 000 SEK to Sweden—they are paying more than $200 million dollars to find all of the US persons here, and there are about 50,000 US persons located here. I can do my part and give myself to Sweden. I am worth 30,000 SEK to them. If all of the others can follow and do the right thing, the country will be saved and the FATCA money can go back to being spent upon real Swedish people.
Soon, I shall dress myself up, and take myself first to my bank. I will take my number in the bank line, and when I reach the front of the line, I shall declare: “I admit, I am a US person” “Please save Sweden from me”.
From there, I shall walk to the local tax authority skatteverket, and I shall again take a number for the que. When I reach the front of the que, I shall humbly state “I am a US person” “Please save Sweden from me”
I shall pick the appropriate time, Perhaps it shall be Tuesday, the 11th of November, at 9:30 pm, depending upon what is convenient, and if anyone should decide to accompany me.
Perhaps someone shall also be willing to do the right thing. The world must be saved from these US persons and Sweden must be saved from me.. I shall turn myself in. So should you.
I shall do my part to save Sweden from me, for I AM A US PERSON.
Cross post from
http://samuelclemmons.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/the-time-has-come-to-surrender-myself-i-am-a-us-person/
(Read the other articles, too)
Most people have the urge to do the right thing, that is except those in the U.S. Government that started following the Marxist line. In the second chapter of the communist manifesto, Marx demanded a progressive income tax and his stated purpose was to destroy the despised Middle Class. He was of the middle class, but they had rejected him because of his friend Adolph Engles. So together they decided to map out a plan for it’s destruction.
Since most of the things he recommended, in his Manifesto, have been proven to be a failure, it is a mystery to me and every other real Capitalist believing person, why our elected officials have continued down that road to failure. Capitalism has made life livable for us all and its destruction by the current congress and executive branch, with the help of the 4th branch (the entrenched government worker)is almost complete. Soon every person who has looked up the U.S. on line or in a book will be declared an American citizen, owning taxes to Rome,,uh I meant Washington D.C.
Maybe you can convince your bank to have a US customer appreciation day, perhaps offering them free train service to the branch?
Sweden’s Princess Madeline is also a “U.S.person” because she married an American and now lives in the United States. Her daughter Princess Leonore is a U.S. citizen because she was born in the United States.
Will Sweden be turning information on Princess Madeline’s Swedish accounts over to the IRS?
Speaking of U.S. Persons—The sons of the deposed Egyptian President Morsi were born here as was the King of Thialand and millions of others either born here, or to Green card holders, Naturalized citizens and some whose mother went into labor when she was here as a tourist. There could be as many as 20 million U.S. citizens, some who know it and others who don’t.
We have a unique place in history with our sister country Eritrea……oh, you never heard of them, well when the chronic liar, Susan Rice was in the U.N. she went to the floor to say how it is a violation of human rights that Eritrea, a small African country with only 20,000 citizens living abroad, could have the audicity to tax their citizens when they don’t live in Africa, only to find out the next day that her own country does the same thing.
If the goofy speech would have silenced her, it may have been worth it, but a big mouthed pathological liar can’t shut up. So we have the destinction of having a law that tracts that great country ”Eritrea”. Aren’t we super great!, or at least our leaders are????
@Blaze
Good point… also… aren’t the royals of Monaco also duals since their mother was american? Didn’t Prince Albert do his university education in the US? I think the daughter of Prince Andrew, Princess Eugenie is now living in the US so I wonder if she fessed up to the IRS to what she has in the UK…. makes us all go hmmm…
@Mark Twain,
interesting angle for a post.
When the dopes in Ottawa signed that IGA, they should have at least had the sense to make it contingent upon the US granting an immediate zero cost relinquishment of US citizenship to any Canada/US dual who wanted it.
The Conservatives simply didn’t understand they were signing away not only a portion of Canada’s tax base and wealth, but betraying their own citizens. Hopefully the lawsuit will educate them.
And Harper stands up and says” We will not be intimidated!’ Ha! He needs to take that word out of his vocabulary.
@maz57, “When the dopes in Ottawa signed that IGA, they should have at least had the sense to make it contingent upon the US granting an immediate zero cost relinquishment of US citizenship to any Canada/US dual who wanted it. ”
That would be a good item for ADCS to tell the judge in court!!
I always felt that the IGA should have included an absolute 24 month amnesty with expedited renouncing at no fee.
@Mark Twain
When the Government of Sweden recently signed an IGA, there was a negative response from the Swedish Bar Society. Have you any comments on that? Have you thought of informing them of developments in Canada?
Best wishes.
Swedish lawyers association: “we don’t really like it, but we approve it because it’s the least bad thing that Sweden can do” … https://www.advokatsamfundet.se/Documents/Advokatsamfundet_sv/Remissvar/478442_20140910111357.pdf
“We at the Swedish lawyers society don’t really have a strong opinion about all that other rights of citizens stuff, but we firmly stand against anything that holds any lawyer accountable” … https://www.advokatsamfundet.se/Documents/Advokatsamfundet_sv/Remissvar/484005_20141014120148.pdf
Swedish PublicSpeak is a way where it’s supposed to sound like they are really taking a stand upon something, when in reality, they will never put themselves out on a limb.
Anything that really sticks out needs to be hammered back into place. Taking a stand upon something is suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law
@Mark Twain
Thank you. Guess you answered my questions! Sorry your expectations are so low.
@ Ann Harper says “We will not be intimidated”
I thought the very same as you. He must have a short memory or maybe he doesn’t think being bullied into FATCA as being “intimidated”
@ George and maz57 “When the dopes in Ottawa signed . . .”
In my letters to the Canadian politicians I told them that they could have renegoiated the tax treaty to include protection regarding TFSAs, RESPs, RDSPs (not just exclusion from reporting under FATCA rules) and eliminate the punishing treatment of holding local mutual funds instead of signing for no benefit. I never thought of amnesty, given that Canada has so many US citizens (as defined by the US), our government could have at least tried to do something for us.
I think Harper is so “Keystoned” that he had no problem offering up a million Canadians to the IRS meat grinder. When he talked about “not being intimidated” in his speech last night, my thoughts were exactly along those lines.
He was being totally disingenuous. Clearly some Canadians can be intimidated if they happen to be a politician with something to gain. Hopefully this lawsuit will intimidate ’em a little more.
@Mark Twain
Yes, this is absurd. Sweden searching out U.S. persons on the pretext of hunting down tax evaders is a complete waste of money that could be more sensibly spent elsewhere. If there is one thing that Sweden is known for it is high taxes, therefore why would anyone move to Sweden if their life’s ambition was to pay less tax? I would guess that most of the money raised from Sweden (and much of Europe more generally) will be obtained through one of the devious gotchas. I suspect that they have no idea how rigged the U.S. tax code is.
I had a call on my answering machine this afternoon. It was my husband’s financial advisor. She said that she’d like to make an appointment for a follow up meeting. She didn’t say with whom. She does know that I am a Canadian born in the US. We had believed from an earlier conversation with her that her point of view was that it wasn’t her job to hunt down and disclose US citizens. I really do believe that I relinquished, but have no paper work. I am not sure what to do next. First, I will make my husband return her call.