U.S. citizens who might seek to renounce citizenship will find it harder and more costly to do so including higher fees and onerous taxes before they show themselves out.
That said, some U.S. citizens ultimately decide that the best move they can make is to renounce their citizenship and completely remove the IRS from their lives.
Some of the primary reasons to expatriate and renounce U.S. citizenship include (but aren’t limited to):
- FACTA if you invest offshore.
- The IRS and its ever-increasing dragnet.
- The worsening U.S. political situation
Any of these reasons could be enough to make you want to renounce.
So let’s say you decide you don’t want your U.S. citizenship anymore. You just renounce it and move on, right? Wrong. Like a bad divorce, the actual process of renouncing U.S. citizenship is both complicated and costly.
In fact, due in part to the increasing number of people renouncing their citizenship annually, the U.S. has recently made it more challenging than ever to renounce citizenship.
How? By quintupling the renunciation fee you must pay when renouncing your citizenship.
According to Investopedia: “Because of the increase in the number of U.S. citizens seeking renunciation, the U.S. Department of State raised the fee for renunciation from $450 to $2,350.”
For context, this fee to expatriate from the United States is currently…
More Than 20x The Cost of Other Wealthy Nations!
This “exit fee” is now 5X what it used to be. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think the U.S. was intentionally trying to discourage people from leaving the country. Oh, wait, that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.
Keep in mind, the renunciation fee is just one part of the “breakup” process. The IRS also imposes additional taxes and penalties before letting you go your way. And if you make too much money – or if your net worth is more than $2 million – the IRS collects a complex series of “expatriation taxes”. Fun times!
Up-to-date information is challenging to source, but according to the quarterly report published at the Treasury Department, some 750 more people have renounced their citizenship during the third quarter of 2022 alone.
That might not seem like much, but the chart below reveals that since 2009, a massive tidal wave of people have decided their U.S. citizenship was becoming too costly and cumbersome:
These folks are completing the renunciation process despite the enormous number of obstacles the U.S. Government has put in place. I have to think these numbers would be much higher if the “exit” taxes and fees weren’t so onerous.
As you know, the IRS loves paperwork and fines, so there are extra penalties if you don’t properly file your paperwork…
IRS Says: “$10,000 Penalty Where Appropriate”
Once you file for expatriation, the IRS reaches into your pocket one more time to grab as much of your cash as it can.
It does that by making you file Form 8854 to account for income, net worth, and other assets to determine how much tax you owe one last time.
If you fail to file this form on time, the IRS can impose a $10,000 penalty on top of interest and fees it may charge.
This is just another in a litany of reasons to abolish the IRS altogether.
But until that happens, you do have one other helpful option you can consider…
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