Anonymous 1 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:19 pm
SolidlyAverage wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:17 pm
Anonymous 1 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 5:27 pm
I should have never owed them. And yes you should benefit from the taxes you pay.
Why?
Because you don’t think you should have?
Did your parents not do some research or something? Why do you think you’d be entitled to not paying taxes?
It is not normal to pay taxes to a country you dont live in. As far as I know it is only the US that does that. My parents did not know that. They had no problem giving up their citizenships more than 20 years ago .
Why should you have to pay taxes to somewhere you have never been? Please explain that to me.
Because you are a citizen. You choose not to live here, but the way the US sees it, that’s just your choice and doesn’t excuse you from not paying taxes to a country IN WHICH YOU ARE A CITIZEN. When I choose to send my kids to private school, I still pay taxes that fund local public schools. That’s kind if the way it works, you don’t nearly get to pick and choose. No, the US is not the only country that charges its citizens taxes even if they live abroad.
Your anger is misdirected here. Like I said originally, take it up with your parents. Its a foreseeable consequence that they should have taken into consideration, and it was foolish to assume that governmental procedures wouldn’t change over decades. They knew you’d owe taxes.