Category Archives: Issues regarding US persons abroad

A couple of days ago, I posted that former IRS lawyer Steven Mospick has publicly acknowledged the insanity of citizenship-based taxation – a fantastic step in the right direction.

Today, I want to call your attention to the fact that the Taxpayer Advocate Twitter account – @YourVoiceATIRS retweeted  the following:

https://twitter.com/#!/YourVoiceAtIRS/status/193325200010510337

The link in the tweet is to the Atossa article. Click on the link – you will be astounded at how viral her article has become. In fact, her article has even caused us to ask the question: Who is the real Peter Dunn.

Again, this is fantastic news and will continue to raise the profile of this issue. Thank you Nina Olson!

About Senate Bill 1813 (passport confiscation), I’m not sure if anybody brought this up before on Isaac:

 
Start by recalling that the Canada-US population ratio is roughly 1:10, while the Canada-US travel ratio is (more) roughly 1:1.

Clear trends are discernible for figures in each of the columns in the table below.
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Hello Isaac? It’s me, Ladyhawk. Is there anyone here who still has US citizenship? Well, anyway, in case anyone is interested in how things are going for people like me who are still trying to make the dual thing work, I thought I’d tell you what happened when I went to the US Consulate in Toronto to renew my US Passport.

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Who is the real Peter Dunn? Arguably, he is the world’s most (in)famous recent renunciant of US citizenship, after Superman, as a result of Atossa Abrahamian’s Reuter’s article. But this could lead to various portrayals who I am and why I did it. Which portrayal is correct?

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The European Parliament has just officially approved the sharing of PNR (Passsenger Name Record) data with the US, which will be provided when you board a flight to or from the US and includes the following:

“…names, addresses, credit card and phone numbers, but in some circumstances may also include sensitive data on an individual’s ethnic origin, meal choices, health, political views or sex life”

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What follows is yet another article motivated by the Atossa Reuters article. Pretty soon that “Peter Dunn” guy (and maybe the other Peter Dunn too) is going to a household name! Here is the last paragraph.

How sad is that?  The cons outweighed the pros, of being an American no less.

As a head of any organization, what would you think if you had customers that would pay real money to leave you because you were such a pain in the buttocks to deal with?  Hopefully it would give you pause.  Perhaps it should.

When Your Customers Flee Complexity

The following comment which recently appeared on this board is (IMHO) deserving of a separate post. Amazing how helpful the Atossa article has been. Seems that all “Peter Dunns” are very helpful too.

Updated. You can follow the responses to this comment:

https://twitter.com/#!/renounceus/status/192975914722795522

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