The National Monitor reports that 39 Americans are vying for the opportunity to expand the reach of the Interstellar “Internal” Revenue Service to Mars, producing an unwelcome drain on the scant resources of the planned human colony there:
The Mars One foundation, a Dutch based non-profit group that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars, has narrowed down 200,000 applications to 100. Americans make up 39 of the shortlisted candidates from 35 countries. These candidates will go on into further testing later this year where they can expect team-building exercises and tests in isolation. … The American candidates include middle-aged engineers, Ph.D. candidates in their 30s and several contenders in their 20s. The ages of all the candidates range from 19 to 60. The United States has the most amateur astronauts in the running.
As previously mentioned here at the Isaac Brock Society, all of these traitorous ingrates fleeing the planet with their intellectual & physical capital will continue to owe U.S. taxes, in recognition of the enormous benefits they will derive from U.S. citizenship during their temporary stay off-world, such as the ability to come back at any time and work in the United States and the ability to pass their citizenship on to their children — even if they don’t want to. Furthermore, Chuck Grassley will no doubt be delighted to learn that the Americans near Deimos won’t be getting any special “tax breaks” that Americans near Des Moines can’t enjoy: Martian income of Americans on Mars is defined as “U.S.-source” under 26 USC § 863(d), and Mars is not a foreign country anyway — meaning that the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion is inapplicable.
Mohnish Pabrai recently made a similar point in an interview with Forbes‘ Lauren Gensler about the massive federal & local tax breaks for people who move from the fifty states to Puerto Rico — another tiresome example of Washington’s tax discrimination based on where you move:
“The way the U.S. tax code is written, I could be on Mars and be taxed on intergalactic income but not if I’m sitting on this island in the Caribbean. It’s kind of in a twilight zone.”
On the other hand, perhaps this suggests a “thin end of the wedge” strategy for people seeking to amend the tax code to eliminate citizenship-based taxation: first exclude people off-planet from the definition of “U.S. Person”, and then work your way down from the sky to the ground.
I’m fairly confident the IRS will send a mission to Mars to audit these terrorist traitor scum. Even though the IRS to Mars mission will cost 25 billion dollars and they may only recover $3,000 dollars it will be worth it. We must make an example out of these treasonous evaders.
If Mars is not considered a sovereign state, then it’s simply an entity which, if Americans are on board, therefore has a “US interest” and is subject to IRS form filing. What’s more, one Mars year is equivalent to 687 Earth days, so when the IRS nabs those American expastronauts for six years of FATCA penalties, that’s over 11 Earth years. And if they renounce, how does the IRS figure the covered expatriate exit tax based on the theoretical capital gains on an entire planet?
The IRS is simply following the precedent previously established in the case of Ms. Moon.
🙂 Sorry Tricia couldn’t resist. 🙂
“… perhaps this suggests a “thin end of the wedge” strategy for people seeking to amend the tax code to eliminate citizenship-based taxation: first exclude people off-planet from the definition of “U.S. Person”, and then work your way down from the sky to the ground.”
Okaaay … And what of the cities proposed to be established on the bottoms of the oceans aka “inner space” here on planet earth ?
Before any of the pioneers leave the Home Planet, or its surface, the American Persons among them will probably be required to leave financial power of attorney to a specified IRS department so all IRS forms can be completed, and taxes paid on their income while they happen to be residing away from their “tax residence.” After all, taxes must be paid on Americans’ World Wide Income – no matter which world they’re on, or under.
Can you imagine the scene, someone phoning the Philadelphia number from Mars and having to deal with a 13 to 24 min delay (depending on how far away Mars is) for every sentence. What a farce.
Has anyone thought of sending this up and comming conundrum to the Senate Finance Committee for consideration? LOL
The IRS may not have anymore outposts outside the U.S., but I see them opening one on Uranus.
The U.S. persons who happen to reside on Mars won’t even be able to renounce, unless the U.S. puts an embassy there, and their family on the Home Planet won’t be able to renounce on their behalf.
All those whiny, tax-evading ingrates sipping cappuccinos by the Martian canals will be singing a different tune when they have to ask the US to send an aircraft carrier out there to rescue them. Bet they’ll be happy to pay their taxes then!
Dear USA,
We find that your behavior as of late does not allow you to use the emblem of the bald eagle any longer. Your recent behavior has likened you to the behavior of a Meleagris gallopavo otherwise known as the domestic turkey. So therefore Canada will now confiscate and utilize both the Bald Eagle and the Snowy Owl as their combined national emblems. At least we have dignity. Those bald eagles who are living and residing in the contiguous 48 States as well as in Alaska are required to bend their tail-feathers up at a 85 degree to 90 degree angle upwards and dye their white head-feathers brown; then surgically attach red wattles to their chins. That way they will not be mistaken for Canadian bald eagles,
Sincerely,
Canadian Bald Eagles everywhere.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZOmY5vSPj-8/VO_JRb3TvdI/AAAAAAAAF6M/MkN_1NgT9vw/w557-h831-no/PatrioticCanadianEagle.jpg
US Attorney Eric Holder worries about ‘lone wolves’ killing American citizens, but the US Government thinks it’s OK to mandate FFIs to create a ‘ready made’ list of US persons with their names, addresses, and also other information obtainable by a corrupt bank employee (such as their place of employment by credits going into their accounts) for terrorists.
Ironically if US Government employees abroad who want ‘local banking’ would be subject to FATCA themselves breaching their own security. Unless they’re going to use American credit / debit cards and stay out of the foreign banking system that’s what they’re going to run up against.
http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNEARaX_89tO2c30zQEfXCCObRD3PA&cid=52778750373006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2015%2F02%2F27%2Fpolitics%2Feric-holder-al-shabaab-lone-wolf%2F&ei=eW7wVJDfJMWs3QGBs4GQBA&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=-4600397812029697770&ssid=h&at=dt0
In other news (reductio ad absurdum), I’ve just found another reason to HATE OBAMA.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Obama_using_a_5D_Mark_II.jpg
He uses a Canon…
#NikonRules.
From a CNN Money article: “Nobody escapes U.S. taxes – even astronauts”
“For accountants that work on astronaut taxes, the physical location of their clients raises some interesting — or perhaps bizarre — questions.
Americans living abroad can claim an exemption on income earned in a foreign country, for example. Could an astronaut also claim the exemption?
Related: For $90, you can bury stuff on the moon
Experts say NASA astronauts working in outer space probably wouldn’t qualify. That’s because government workers aren’t typically eligible, and the IRS doesn’t consider international airspace or waters to be a foreign country, said Vincenzo Villamena, an accountant who specializes in expat taxes.
“Even if the astronaut was stationed on board the International Space Station, it would be considered an offshore shop or offshore installation [subject to U.S. taxation],” he said.
But does the IRS definition of “international airspace” extend to altitudes beyond the Earth’s atmosphere? The tax code is silent on the issue, though it might come into play if the private space travel industry continues to develop. The IRS did not respond to a request for comment. ”
http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/07/pf/astronaut-taxes-irs
http://www.space.com/29095-space-taxes-mars-colonists.html
IRS in Space: How Will We Tax a Mars Mission?
by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer | April 14, 2015 06:50am ET
…………”Taxes are going to play a big role in a Mars mission, both in getting there and upon arrival, Adam Chodorow, a law professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, said April 9 at an event hosted by Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the nonprofit New America Foundation and Arizona State University.
“Taxes matter, and the way we colonize space will probably be driven by the tax system,” Chodorow told the audience. “We’re heading to Mars soon, so we need to be thinking seriously” about the role taxes will play, he added….”……..
An interesting parallel to this guy asserting that Islamic law applies on the ground and in the sky also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCfrhi7I178
A mahram is, very loosely, a male relative who accompanies a woman when she travels, as a chaperone/bodyguard/whatever. Well, if Allah and His angels can assert authority, why not I.R.S.?