11 August 2013 (00:28 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Shawwal 1434/20 Mordad 1391/05 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
According to the U.S. Department of State, 6.38 million U.S. citizens are now living outside the United States! That’s 1.18 million more than what the State Department reported in 2012! (that does not include government or military personnel)
But wait, the 6.38 million figure is what the U.S. State Department compiled for 2011! You see, the data the State Department just released is two years old! I could almost guarantee the actual number of U.S. citizens leaving the country is higher.
Already 1810 have renounced their U.S. citizenship, just in the first half of 2013, that’s record breaking!
Since 2008 the numbers of U.S. citizens rejecting their citizenship has only gone up. These approximate numbers are compiled from the quarterly list of names provided by the Internal Revenue Service.
2008: 235
2009: 743
2010: 1500
2011: 1788
2012: 747
First six months of 2013: 1810
The exodus has got government leaders so riled up that they’ve passed tax laws (like FATCA & FBAR) that essentially makes anyone who leaves the United States a tax evading terrorist.
But you can’t blame the new taxes because expatriates are already required to pay U.S. taxes even though they live in another country: “The U.S. is the only developed nation in the world that taxes its citizens on income they earn abroad.“-William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
The new tax laws require foreign banks to report accounts of U.S. citizens to the U.S. government. FACTA also require foreign banks to steal up to 30% of U.S. payments to U.S. citizen’s bank accounts! Banks in Germany and Canada are complaining that the laws are too complicated, and will cost them money to comply with.
U.S. expats living abroad, yet paying U.S. taxes with little or no representation. Isn’t that what the U.S. Revolution of 1776 was all about?
Where are all those U.S. citizens fleeing to? According to the recently released State Department data (from 2011) the favorite place is still the Western Hemisphere (Canada, Latin America, Caribbean). Two million 591 thousand U.S. citizens fled north or south of the border. By the way, this year former USN SEAL, former movie star and former governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, revealed that he moved his family to Mexico. Don’t blame U.S. taxes, in an interview with controversial Alex Jones, Ventura basically said the sheeple of the U.S. are a bunch of panty wastes who don’t have the guts to fight their repressive elitist British empire/Israeli zionist controlled government!
Europe is the next favorite escape destination, at one million 612 thousand. But for those who move to Europe you can not blame it on trying to avoid U.S. taxes, because the tax rates in Europe are outrageous! How ’bout that waffling Republican Michele Bachmann? First she’s a U.S. citizen, then she becomes a Swiss citizen in 2012, then changes her mind! In 2012, Grammy-nominated songwriter Denise Rich renounced U.S. citizenship after moving to United Kingdom. Also, in January 2013 ‘merican pop music star Tina Turner renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a Swiss citizen. Tina Turner said she can’t bring herself to call the U.S. ‘home’ anymore: “I’m very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here. I cannot imagine a better place to live.”
Next is the Near East (aka Middle East, North Africa) at 870 thousand. That’s right, U.S. citizens are moving to countries considered to support terrorism!
East Asia and Pacific countries have seen 864 thousand U.S. citizens move in. In 2012 Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, renounced his U.S. citizenship and now calls Singapore his home. In his case taxes might be the motivating factor. Athlete Quincy Davis renounced U.S. citizenship in June 2013. He now plays basketball for Taiwan.
212 thousand U.S. citizens moved into South Central Asian countries (Afghanistan anyone?).
And African countries saw 171 thousand U.S. citizens take up residence.
Remember, these are 2011 State Department numbers.