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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Everywhere sucks! Let's talk about Expatriation!
 
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Juanito
Jan 20, 2004

I wasn't paying attention
to what you just said.

Can you repeat yourself
in a more interesting way?
Hell Gem

freebooter posted:

Is this actually enforced? Australia has the same rule but I've never filed a tax return for the years I've lived overseas and don't know any other Australians who have either. I always assumed it was more to prevent millionaires from offshoring, the ATO doesn't give a poo poo about my measly 22,000 pounds a year or whatever lovely wage I had in London.
I'm unfamiliar with Australian laws/taxes, but the United States is one of only two countries (Eritrea is the other) in the world that expects their citizens living overseas to pay taxes. Thankfully there is a substantial tax break for living overseas, but they want to know how much money you're earning. They also want to know how much Americans have in foreign bank accounts, which is one reason that a lot of foreign banks don't like American clients anymore.

Basically I'd never compare United States tax compliance/enforcement with any other countries.

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