# Never Pay U.S. Taxes Again - Legally

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 8, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-pay-u-s-taxes-again-legally/375663 "2006-10-08T00:36:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-pay-u-s-taxes-again-legally/375663/41 "2006-10-10T23:11:30Z")

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How does the IRS intend to collect money from someone who is no longer an American citizen, regardless of any supposed American tax liability and/or net worth and/or time spent in America? Would America provoke an international incident over a few hundred thousand dollars of taxes supposedly owed?

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**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-pay-u-s-taxes-again-legally/375663/42 "2006-10-11T12:41:29Z")

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[QUOTE=Derleth]  
How does the IRS intend to collect money from someone who is no longer an American citizen, regardless of any supposed American tax liability and/or net worth and/or time spent in America? Would America provoke an international incident over a few hundred thousand dollars of taxes supposedly owed?  
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I doubt it. They’d probably just give the person concerned (or any businesses they are involved with) a good shafting if they ever ended up in under US jurisdiction somehow. That can often be enough of a motivator, if you are an internationally mobile person.  
This sort of taxation nuttiness isn’t just confined to individuals. Barclays Bank is one of the largest UK banks, and a few years ago got clobbered by California demanding that it pay taxes on its total international income in sixty countries, not just locally. [Brief summary](http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=95254854)

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-pay-u-s-taxes-again-legally/375663/43 "2006-10-11T12:46:17Z")

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[QUOTE=slaphead]  
They’d probably just give the person concerned (or any businesses they are involved with) a good shafting if they ever ended up in under US jurisdiction somehow.  
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I hear they get sent to FPMITAP.

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-pay-u-s-taxes-again-legally/375663/44 "2006-10-18T01:34:46Z")

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[QUOTE=astro]  
Interesting article…  
Never Pay U.S. Taxes Again - Legally - By Robert E. Bauman  
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Yep. That’s it.  
Feds & IRS lock you up, no job, no income, and NO TAXES! :rolleves:

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-pay-u-s-taxes-again-legally/375663/45 "2006-10-18T01:36:14Z")

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[QUOTE=spingears]  
Yep. That’s it.  
Feds & IRS lock you up, no job, no income, and NO TAXES! :rolleves:  
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Did you read anything in this thread but the OP?

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