Cross posted from RenounceUScitizenship

Warning! The following video contains language that may offend some of you. To articulate the obvious:

1. The language in the video irrelevant to the purpose and message of the post.

2. If I need to say this: obviously I do NOT share Mr. Fischer’s bigoted views.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed!

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

–        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The notion of “dual loyalties” may seem old-fashioned to some – a throwback to the days of Cold War spy-sniffing. But the concept is hardly obsolete, for the same reason that monogamy isn’t obsolete (for most of us, anyway): No one can serve two masters at once.”

The above interview of Bobby Fischer after his release from prison in Japan contains some interesting comments about U.S. citizenship. Why did the U.S. government not intervene on behalf of  U.S. citizen Bobby Fischer? Where was the protection of the U.S. government? Continue reading →

I came across the following exchange in the comments section to a recent Isaac Brock post. Like many of  the comments posted, I found this exchange particularly interesting. What are your thoughts on the requirement of “Reporting”? What if there were no prospect of suffering penalties for failing to report? Is there a legitimate privacy issue? Are there things that are not the business of the Government? Although this is not a direct analogy in the case of Roe v. Wade the U.S. Supreme court (per Justice Blackmun) did find a right of privacy in the Constitution that justified a prohibition of abortion laws. Continue reading →

The IRS is going to extreme measures to make headlines …

U.S. tax attorney Chris Rusch arrested in Panama City

If you pursue the link below to read the rest of this gripping story, also consider (1) Where the story is coming from, and (2) The veiled pitch for business.

If only journalists in Canada and elsewhere would dramatize the persecution of ordinary extraterritorials with such fervor.

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I found a rather interesting website of a now deceased Vancouver tax lawyer/preparer who at one time dealt with US Canada tax issues. The site has a series of newsletters and question and answers going back to 1993 (This is was in the “day” when there was an IRS attache located at the US embassy in Ottawa who dealt specifically with Canada). I would not necessarily bet my life on information from a dead person that is 15 years old but going through his newsletters (I am still going through starting in October of 1993); he appears to at least have some answers from the then IRS attache in Ottawa that “may” in fact explain some of the situations people find themselves in. The real funny thing is at least as of 1993 the IRS could administratively require anyone living outside the US who hadn’t filed to file returns going back to 1967.(I guess there was a big tax law change back in that year. This was definately before my time maybe Roger would know).

Here is his first newsletter from October 1993 that deals with the filing requirements.

This is the newsletter I am studying right now from March 1994 that talks about dual nationality and loss of citizenship issues.