No time for a detailed analysis, but the Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate for Q4 2017 has just been placed on public inspection for printing in Friday’s Federal Register, ten days later than required by law.
I count 685 names in this list, bringing the total of “published expatriates” for 2017 to 5,133 individuals. In contrast, NICS added 1,017 people to the “Renounced U.S. Citizenship” category from October to December of last year, and another 353 in January. This quarter’s Federal Register list still does not include some public figures known to have given up US citizenship more than a year ago, including Japanese legislator Kimi Onoda and Ghanaian Deputy Minister of Finance Charles Adu Boahen.
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Jan 2017 | 377 | 38,380 | Apr 2017 | 460 | 39,947 | Jul 2017 | 329 | 41,001 | Oct 2017 | 284 | 41,960 |
Feb 2017 | 344 | 38,724 | May 2017 | 381 | 40,328 | Aug 2017 | 326 | 41,327 | Nov 2017 | 427 | 42,387 |
Mar 2017 | 763 | 39,487 | Jun 2017 | 344 | 40,672 | Sep 2017 | 349 | 41,676 | Dec 2017 | 306 | 42,693 |
Q1 total | 1,484 | Q2 total | 1,185 | Q3 total | 1,004 | Q4 total | 1,017 | ||||
82 FR 21877 | 1,313 | 82 FR 36188 | 1,759 | 82 FR 50960 | 1,376 | 83 FR 5xxx | 685 | ||||
Annual totals for 2017 | Fed. Reg. | 5,133 | NICS | 4,690 |
Fundamentally, nothing much has changed. After all the broken promises about how tax reform would save us, it just turned out to be another bonanza for accountants and lawyers. The IRS still can’t publish a simple list of names in a timely fashion. Trump and Tillerson’s underlings continue to spout the same insulting excuses as Obama and Kerry’s underlings did for the $2,350 rip-off.
People who can’t hide from this whole mess continue to face absurd wait times for appointments and CLNs (made worse by ongoing chaos in the State Department), while those who are able to hide have even stronger reasons to keep on hiding.