Thread: Tough tax rules see expats ditch US passports

Originally Posted by Koojo

Originally Posted by Necron99

No one holds a gun to your head and "forces" you to fill in a tax return. You submit it voluntarily. If you happen to lie on it, more fool you.

And if you don't fill in a tax return what are the consequenses?

They won't renew your passport so you'll have to find another Country willing to sell you one or come home, and they will garnish any pensions or other income you receive from home.

But then I got the last laugh, instead of working 70 plus hours a week practicing law in Califonria, I've spent the last 7 years teaching English in Thailand for a whopping $800 a month; a move that has legitimately saved me hundreds of thousands of Dollars in taxes. My laziness has been rewarded.