9 thoughts on “May 23, 2017- Vancouver -Solving U.S.Citizenship Problems”
Everybody is scrambling to comply with the U.S. Tax law instead of pooling all that effort and helping us get this Marxist Income Tax law overturned. Spending a fortune for lawyers would be better spent lobbying the Ways and Means Committee to adopt the FairTax. The FairTax is the most researched law in history and is so simple that every tax lawyer (which we all despise) , every tax preparer(whom none of us trusts) every IRS Washington D.C. Puke,all who are sucking on the system that the founders said should never happen, fired.
Expats could all breathe easy, because the FairTax is, by its nature, Territorial. If you are in the U.S. and you purchase some new goods you pay taxes, but if you live in Canada, Mexico or Thailand, and are a citizen by birth,Celebrate you Americanism and give the IRS the middle finger of your right hand.
“Spending a fortune for lawyers would be better spent lobbying the Ways and Means Committee to adopt the FairTax.”
One may not need to spend a fortune for lawyers. After attending one of John’s info sessions, I renounced without spending a dollar on lawyers or compliance condors. The renunciation fee is of course outrageous but it can buy freedom from US tax citizenship. As far as trying to change things in the USA, that is likely a waste of time, effort and money.
@Wilton Jere Tidwel
Although I do agree that US tax code is complex and burdensome. It certainly should be replaced with a better system. It was way too unjust for me so saying goodbye became necessary.
@PatCanadian:
“The renunciation fee is of course outrageous but it can buy freedom from US tax citizenship. As far as trying to change things in the USA, that is likely a waste of time, effort and money.”
I largely agree, with the caveat that I do get the impression that the Congressional hearing has shifted perceptions somewhat. Which may improve the chances of the Bopp FATCA litigants being granted standing and the case thus eventually reaching the Supreme Court.
@Iota
I certainly hope that there is a change in perceptions south of the border about FATCA and CBT. It would be especially helpful for those expats who are still “under the radar”.
IANAL but it seems to me if FATCA were to be declared unconstitutional many governments might feel a little uneasy lest a US-born self-relinquisher might sue them for discriminating against residents of US origin.
Mr Richardson’s seminars are one of the best ways to make up your mind about how to deal with the old ball and chain of “US personship”. You will hear things that cannot be written and meet many other people with the same problem, all in total anonymity. We can’t be grateful enough for his tireless work. Go if you can. I travelled 200 miles for it myself.
@Anonymous by Necessity
“Mr Richardson’s seminars are one of the best ways to make up your mind about how to deal with the old ball and chain of “US personship””
I totally agree. Worked for me. And information given at John’s seminars is applicable to many different circumstances that can come with the US Person problem.
@iota
They should be rightfully worried, since those countries who colluded with the United States decided to throw every one of US origin, including those who were born on foreign soil and who had considered themselves only citizens of the countries in which they were born (but are now considered US persons due to a US born parent) under the bus.
Especially galling is PM Justin Trudeau who claimed “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” Tell that to my sons and daughter who would be claimed by the US as US persons (if their parents weren’t smart enough to not register them at the US Consulate before FATCA was instituted under the reign of Obama) And even more angering is the usual lemming response of those Canadians who seem to regard both Harper and Trudeau in the best possible light even when they find out that he and his predecessor were lying, cheating traitors who did everything that they could to undermine Canadian sovereignty and sell out Canada to the dictates of a foreign power undermining Canada’s financial sovereignty as well as their own national security.
Such an act should mete out to the guilty a sentence of life in prison for treason; but these traitors are walking around Canadian Soil free and clear with no censure on the part of Canadian citizens at all. It is as though ignorant Canadians are happy to pay obeisance to the dictates of a foreign government.
As a Canadian-born and bred and a patriotic one at that, I bristle at the thought of Canada being considered as nothing more as a vassal state to the one south of the border. I have no more influence than an ice-cube in hell with the possibility of being elected leader of Canada, so it would be absolutely ludicrous to even think that I would have a hope of winning an election against JT.
But on the off-chance that I would win, Trump and any other leader (Republican or Democrat) would find himself facing a brick wall; the Friendship Gate at Peace Arch would be closed for the first time since the Arch was erected. And Canada’s financial institutions would be wailing up a storm because they would be hauled into court for seditious behavior, the IGAs would be overturned and our military budget would be jacked up to 3.8% of GDP which would be a whopping $58B. Not to mention that US Consulates would be required to pack up and leave and the US would be considered a hostile, aggressive nation. No, people wouldn’t like it at all, especially the rose-colored wearing sycophants who have “stars & bars” in their eyes – and that includes Canadian-born Canadians as well. I’d be granting amnesty to all US Canadian residents and citizenship based on the number of years that they’d lived here as PR. Secondly I would be telling the US President to get his claws out of the Canadian economy and that they could stick their FATCA where the sun don’t shine and that their laws do not govern OUR nation.
But all that is a pipe-dream and above all, my wife is as of yet a United States citizen and a Canadian permanent resident due to finances. We are making steps by gathering up the documentation needed to apply for her CDN citizenship. I cannot even fathom the idea of putting ourselves in the political bullseye until she becomes a Canadian citizen.
Everybody is scrambling to comply with the U.S. Tax law instead of pooling all that effort and helping us get this Marxist Income Tax law overturned. Spending a fortune for lawyers would be better spent lobbying the Ways and Means Committee to adopt the FairTax. The FairTax is the most researched law in history and is so simple that every tax lawyer (which we all despise) , every tax preparer(whom none of us trusts) every IRS Washington D.C. Puke,all who are sucking on the system that the founders said should never happen, fired.
Expats could all breathe easy, because the FairTax is, by its nature, Territorial. If you are in the U.S. and you purchase some new goods you pay taxes, but if you live in Canada, Mexico or Thailand, and are a citizen by birth,Celebrate you Americanism and give the IRS the middle finger of your right hand.
“Spending a fortune for lawyers would be better spent lobbying the Ways and Means Committee to adopt the FairTax.”
One may not need to spend a fortune for lawyers. After attending one of John’s info sessions, I renounced without spending a dollar on lawyers or compliance condors. The renunciation fee is of course outrageous but it can buy freedom from US tax citizenship. As far as trying to change things in the USA, that is likely a waste of time, effort and money.
@Wilton Jere Tidwel
Although I do agree that US tax code is complex and burdensome. It certainly should be replaced with a better system. It was way too unjust for me so saying goodbye became necessary.
@PatCanadian:
“The renunciation fee is of course outrageous but it can buy freedom from US tax citizenship. As far as trying to change things in the USA, that is likely a waste of time, effort and money.”
I largely agree, with the caveat that I do get the impression that the Congressional hearing has shifted perceptions somewhat. Which may improve the chances of the Bopp FATCA litigants being granted standing and the case thus eventually reaching the Supreme Court.
@Iota
I certainly hope that there is a change in perceptions south of the border about FATCA and CBT. It would be especially helpful for those expats who are still “under the radar”.
IANAL but it seems to me if FATCA were to be declared unconstitutional many governments might feel a little uneasy lest a US-born self-relinquisher might sue them for discriminating against residents of US origin.
Mr Richardson’s seminars are one of the best ways to make up your mind about how to deal with the old ball and chain of “US personship”. You will hear things that cannot be written and meet many other people with the same problem, all in total anonymity. We can’t be grateful enough for his tireless work. Go if you can. I travelled 200 miles for it myself.
@Anonymous by Necessity
“Mr Richardson’s seminars are one of the best ways to make up your mind about how to deal with the old ball and chain of “US personship””
I totally agree. Worked for me. And information given at John’s seminars is applicable to many different circumstances that can come with the US Person problem.
@iota
They should be rightfully worried, since those countries who colluded with the United States decided to throw every one of US origin, including those who were born on foreign soil and who had considered themselves only citizens of the countries in which they were born (but are now considered US persons due to a US born parent) under the bus.
Especially galling is PM Justin Trudeau who claimed “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” Tell that to my sons and daughter who would be claimed by the US as US persons (if their parents weren’t smart enough to not register them at the US Consulate before FATCA was instituted under the reign of Obama) And even more angering is the usual lemming response of those Canadians who seem to regard both Harper and Trudeau in the best possible light even when they find out that he and his predecessor were lying, cheating traitors who did everything that they could to undermine Canadian sovereignty and sell out Canada to the dictates of a foreign power undermining Canada’s financial sovereignty as well as their own national security.
Such an act should mete out to the guilty a sentence of life in prison for treason; but these traitors are walking around Canadian Soil free and clear with no censure on the part of Canadian citizens at all. It is as though ignorant Canadians are happy to pay obeisance to the dictates of a foreign government.
As a Canadian-born and bred and a patriotic one at that, I bristle at the thought of Canada being considered as nothing more as a vassal state to the one south of the border. I have no more influence than an ice-cube in hell with the possibility of being elected leader of Canada, so it would be absolutely ludicrous to even think that I would have a hope of winning an election against JT.
But on the off-chance that I would win, Trump and any other leader (Republican or Democrat) would find himself facing a brick wall; the Friendship Gate at Peace Arch would be closed for the first time since the Arch was erected. And Canada’s financial institutions would be wailing up a storm because they would be hauled into court for seditious behavior, the IGAs would be overturned and our military budget would be jacked up to 3.8% of GDP which would be a whopping $58B. Not to mention that US Consulates would be required to pack up and leave and the US would be considered a hostile, aggressive nation. No, people wouldn’t like it at all, especially the rose-colored wearing sycophants who have “stars & bars” in their eyes – and that includes Canadian-born Canadians as well. I’d be granting amnesty to all US Canadian residents and citizenship based on the number of years that they’d lived here as PR. Secondly I would be telling the US President to get his claws out of the Canadian economy and that they could stick their FATCA where the sun don’t shine and that their laws do not govern OUR nation.
But all that is a pipe-dream and above all, my wife is as of yet a United States citizen and a Canadian permanent resident due to finances. We are making steps by gathering up the documentation needed to apply for her CDN citizenship. I cannot even fathom the idea of putting ourselves in the political bullseye until she becomes a Canadian citizen.