[Kellis91789]

Why would you want to prevent them from taking their income home with them ? The whole point of being a tax haven is to attract the capital and get the benefit of that additional liquid capital working in your economy. It is NOT to create a source of revenue from those non-US residents. Attempting to collect taxes from non-US residents is exactly the opposite of being a tax haven.

This attitude of seeing people as tax revenue sources rather than productive elements of an economy is exactly what kills economies. Attempting to tax income of non-residents is no different than trying to prey upon the most productive 1% of our own citizens, where people blithely accept that 1% of the population shouldn't complain about paying 40% of the taxes. In both cases, it is democracy as tyranny — a majority voting to take something away from a minority that stands no chance of voting protection for itself. Remember: “democracy” was a curse word to the founding fathers, and it was our “republican” form of government that was supposed to protect the individual from the tyranny of the majority.

[mo]

“.....where people blithely accept that 1% of the population shouldn’t complain about paying 40% of the taxes”

IMO, thats how we’ve wound up with an oligarchy...and 25yrs of Bush/Clinton dynasty....That 1% owns the government..that the rest of the country sold to them...

[groanup]

Attempting to collect taxes from non-US residents is exactly the opposite of being a tax haven.

No. A tax haven, in the traditional sense, is a place where not much more than a post office box allows you to earn money off of investments in that place. Investments are specifically exempt in the legislation.