{"id":369710,"date":"2018-07-17T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T04:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-and-more-americans-consider-renouncing-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2018-07-17T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T04:47:09","slug":"more-and-more-americans-consider-renouncing-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-and-more-americans-consider-renouncing-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"More and More Americans Consider Renouncing Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There has been a tremendous amount of debate about building walls to stop illegal immigration. But the IRS is building walls to keep Americans in.<\/p>\n

The US government is cracking down on Americans with outstanding tax bills by revoking passports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The IRS says 362,000 Americans with \u201cseriously delinquent\u201d or overdue tax payments will be denied passport renewal if they don\u2019t pay up, according to\u00a0a report by\u00a0Time<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A law passed in 2015 empowered the IRS to block passports if a person owes more than $51,000. As former congressman\u00a0Bob Barr put it<\/a>, the IRS is starting to use this hammer.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0report, the IRS has been sending the names of tens of thousands of \u201cviolators\u201d to the State Department. You could even find your passport revoked if you\u2019re already overseas, although you may be eligible for a limited passport for a direct return to the US.<\/p>\n

If this wasn\u2019t troubling enough, Barr raises the specter of other federal agencies getting similar authority,\u00a0such as the power to stop a citizen\u2019s ability to \u201csecure a driver\u2019s license, obtain[\u2026] a loan from a federally-insured financial institution, or clear[\u2026] a background check prior to purchasing a firearm?\u201d
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Meanwhile, more and more Americans are considering renouncing their citizenship due to onerous taxes. Last year, 5,132 gave up their citizenship. That was just 277 below the all-time record of 5,409 set in 2016.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no mystery why Americans living abroad willingly sacrifice their citizenship. United States tax laws are extremely onerous.\u00a0The US is one of the few countries that forces its citizens to pay taxes on income earned abroad, no…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There has been a tremendous amount of debate about building walls to stop illegal immigration. But the IRS is building walls to keep Americans in. The US government is cracking down on Americans with outstanding tax bills by revoking passports.\u00a0 The IRS says 362,000 Americans with \u201cseriously delinquent\u201d or overdue tax payments will be denied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}