This post appeared on the RenounceUScitizenship blog and was motivated by the included brilliant and insightful comment of Badger.
How #FATCA will enslave the world in 2 easy steps http://t.co/JzBqKvNyB5
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) October 5, 2013
If #FATCA becomes fully operational, it will result in the following:
Step 1: Non-U.S. countries will (at their expense, whether IGA or otherwise) identify those people who the U.S. defines (a possibly shifting definition) as U.S. persons;
Step 2: Once identified the U.S. will use the existence of those “U.S. persons as the excuse to transfer a share of the GNP of that country to the United States on a permanent and increasing basis. In other words: FATCA is to enforce citizenship-based taxation which is a “forced tribute to the U.S.”
The reasons include:
