Some time ago, a poster here (I believe it was Tim?) pointed us to the 1995 Joint Committee on Taxation report “Issues Presented By Proposals To Modify The Tax Treatment Of Expatriation”. This report was issued during one of the U.S. periodic witchhunts against the alleged flood of rich people who were “fleeing the country to avoid the estate tax”, and made public the names, birth dates, and dates of loss of citizenship of nearly a thousand people who had chosen to stop being Americans between 1 January 1994 and 26 April 1995.
I’m going to be doing a couple of posts over the next week or so based on this data, so I’ve decided to put it up here in machine-readable format; the original document contained only scanned pages images and not text, and thus was not easily searchable. I have not published the actual names or birthdates here, out of respect for the privacy of people who made individual decisions to give up U.S. citizenship more than a decade and a half ago, for whom no law at the time ever authorised that the data be made public, and who are no doubt going about their lives today with no desire to dredge up the distant past (and for those who have continued to pay attention to U.S. politics, a distinct sense of relief that they are not the targets of today’s IRS Offshore Crusades).
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