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My uncle in London convinced me to stop renewing my US passport
He said "you're paying $130 every 10 years to a country you haven't lived in since 2015" and honestly he was right. I just let mine expire last month and I'm not even sad about it. Has anyone else dropped one citizenship just to simplify taxes?
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jadej5014m ago
Letting a passport expire is one thing but actually renouncing sounds like a nightmare. Gray's right, that exit tax thing is brutal from what I've read. I can barely handle filing my regular taxes without wanting to set my laptop on fire, so dealing with IRS agents for a year sounds like my own personal version of hell.
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gray_morgan4h ago
Yeah but are you sure about this? I get the tax thing but renouncing US citizenship is a whole different level than just letting a passport expire, they make you go through this whole process and pay a fee if you actually want to give it up. My cousin did it after moving to Germany and he said it took over a year and he still has to file taxes for a few more years as a "covered expatriate" or whatever that means. Did your uncle mention any of that or is he just talking about not renewing the passport?
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