Posted on 06/11/2013 8:34:41 PM PDT by rickmichaels
The deadline for Americans living in Canada to file a tax return with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is less than a week away, but not everyone is scrambling to get their paperwork in order.
“I’m not filing U.S. taxes,” says a Calgary resident we’ll call Joe. “As an accidental American, I’m outraged that a foreign government is going after me for the fact my Canadian parents had me in the U.S. and only stayed there for a few short months.”
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I think the question may hinge on whether he has a U.S. Social Security number. If he does, then his birth in the U.S. was more than just an incidental question of timing while his parents were in the U.S. for a few short months.
The only cost involved in this "double taxation" is the cost of filing two separate tax returns.
A friend of mine did that. Very expensive process, applying alone is a few thousand bucks w/ no guarantees.
He may have been born in the land of the free but he’ll have to pay for it the rest of his life. I mean, somebody’s got to cover the cost of all those Obamafones...
Sop what do you do? What would you recommend for someone thinking of leaving the US to escape taxes?
No,no...I wasn't suggesting that Canada was going to have a draft,I just used that as an example of what can happen to "dual citizens".Being a dual citizen myself (US/Ireland) I've done some reading on the subject,including on some of the unexpected,unpleasant things that can happen.Our State Department,for example,warns dual citizens that one possible danger they might experience is,when entering the country of their other citizenship,they might be "drafted" into the army if that country has any kind of mandatory military service laws...as some still do.
On a side note...I recently developed a curiosity about a town in northern Vermont called Derby Line,which sits right on the Canadian border and which has a library that's literally *on* the border (Haskell Library..look it up...fascinating).I read that many people living in the town on the Canadian side are dual citizens because for many years the only nearby hospital was in/near Derby Line so many of the town's kids were born in the US.So,at least with the US and Canada dual citizenship isn't a particularly unusual situation.
What the hell kind of comment is that?
A) France isn’t the mother country.
B) Canada has fought in both world wars years before US started.
I saw a speech on youtube given by the Canadian PM (Harper,IIRC) in which he stated that Canada had *two* mother countries.Also,I wouldn't be surprised if many French Canadians considered France to be the "mother country".
donno.
Thing is that imho in most cases it's really not a problem, that overseas earnings are pretty much nontaxed anyway, and filing is free on line.
Canada has been complaining about this for at least two years. I remember a story where a woman’s family migrated to Canada when she was a child and became Canadian. In her 30s, the IRS starts demanding taxes from her - and her now working teenaged children who were born in Canada.
Harper is full of crap, France lost a war unconditionally, sadly, we let the conquered stay.
Canada's been trying to prevent Quebec from seceding...Britain is now trying to prevent Scotland from seceding.I suppose there are arguments for,and against,such efforts but I suppose there's a price to be paid regardless of how things turn out.But hey...just as there's no love lost between Quebec and the rest of Canada there's also no love lost between Massachusetts and Tennessee (for example).
Yeah, I believe you are correct...it’s just that during the time we were there it SEEMED like double for other reasons (like selling stock)...
Did you know the wonderful Lib hero Pierre Trudeau was a Zombie? The Libs don’t like it when they’re reminded of his non service.
Western Canada should just go form it’s own republic. Implement a flat tax and actually have some rights.
Hey,you guys have all the oil and,from what I saw of Manitoba,much (if not most) of the farm land so it just might work.But getting lobsters from Nova Scotia might be more difficult.
“A) France isn’t the mother country.”
To Quebec it is.
“B) Canada has fought in both world wars years before US started.”
Because the mother country of the British Canada did.
“The Libs don’t like it when they’re reminded of his non service.”
American libs would be proud of that (see BJ Clinton).
Capital gains taxes can get very complicated because the rates can vary a lot, and because some countries have exemptions for capital gains below a certain threshold.
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