Renounce Your Citizenship? We’ll Tax You , Then Keep You Out

May17th
Renounce Your Citizenship? We'll Tax You, Then Keep You Out
Tom Woods

From ABC.com:

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again….

At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the "Ex-PATRIOT" – "Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy"….

The senators will call Saverin's move an "outrage" and will outline their plan to re-impose taxes on expatriates like Saverin even after they flee the United States and take up residence in a foreign country. Their proposal would also impose a mandatory 30 percent tax on the capital gains of anybody who renounces their U.S. citizenship.

The plan would bar individuals like Saverin from ever reentering the United States again.

As Peter Schiff said on the radio with me today, among other things this legislation will encourage the wealthy contemplating leaving to leave right away, before increasingly draconian restrictions like these and others to come are imposed.

Read " Senators to Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax 'Scheme.'"

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