When the news broke a year ago that the U.S. was hiking the fee to renounce U.S. citizenship by 422% there was a backlash. If anything, the uptick in American expatriations grew rather than declined. The U.S. State Department said raising the fee for renunciation of U.S. citizenship is about demand and paperwork. Perhaps, but a hike from $450 to $2,350 is still steep. That is more than twenty times the average level in other high-income countries. The State Department complains about demand on their services and all the extra workload they have to process people who are on their way out.
blogging my (mis)adventures in China between and during bouts of jetlag peppered with random thoughts on investing, strategy and development
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Making it more difficult for Americans to 'go galt'?
The US has decided to increase the cost of renouncing a US citizenship by 422%. According to the US State Department, it's about cost recovery... because the cost increased 422% between last year and this year? (Forbes):
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