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  1. Phil, could you comment on how to file zero returns? I can’t figure out how to do it. The only options seem to be Quiet Disclosure (frowned on, I gather) or the Streamlined Procedures, which don’t seem designed for a renunciant filing five years zero returns. I don’t want to certify under penalty of perjury that I fit the Streamlined criteria if it’s not the case!

  2. Phil, could you comment on how to file zero returns? I can’t figure out how to do it. The only options seem to be Quiet Disclosure (frowned on, I gather) or the Streamlined Procedures, which don’t seem designed for a renunciant filing five years zero returns. I don’t want to certify under penalty of perjury that I fit the Streamlined criteria if it’s not the case!

  3. Happy days, A. 🙂 Congratulations! I did it last month – in Amsterdam, because I share your dislike of the guns. Kind of ironic that you and I will now be on the list of individuals it’s illegal to sell a gun to in America!

    Good luck with your studies.

    Iota

  4. Happy days, A. 🙂 Congratulations! I did it last month – in Amsterdam, because I share your dislike of the guns. Kind of ironic that you and I will now be on the list of individuals it’s illegal to sell a gun to in America!

    Good luck with your studies.

    Iota

  5. Don’t any of the staff in Grosvenor Square think this situation is wrong? At this point renunciations must as routine at the American Embassy as staff at McDonald’s taking an order for a Quarter Cheese Value Meal – that’ll be $2350 please. Would you like a Super Size renunciation?

    On the flip side, she’ll still have to constantly prove to FFIs that she isn’t American. In the EU the principle that needs to be established is if you open an account with an EU passport, and resident there, no more questions asked American or not.

    It’s been said the American Tax Code is 70,000 pages, and the British is 17,000. Why should’ve that girl have to comply with 87,000 pages of tax code, when someone next to her only complies with 17,000 and they’re both EU citizens.

    It needs to be challenged in an EU court.

  6. Don’t any of the staff in Grosvenor Square think this situation is wrong? At this point renunciations must as routine at the American Embassy as staff at McDonald’s taking an order for a Quarter Cheese Value Meal – that’ll be $2350 please. Would you like a Super Size renunciation?

    On the flip side, she’ll still have to constantly prove to FFIs that she isn’t American. In the EU the principle that needs to be established is if you open an account with an EU passport, and resident there, no more questions asked American or not.

    It’s been said the American Tax Code is 70,000 pages, and the British is 17,000. Why should’ve that girl have to comply with 87,000 pages of tax code, when someone next to her only complies with 17,000 and they’re both EU citizens.

    It needs to be challenged in an EU court.

  7. May I be the first to congratulate you, A, on successfully getting over the largest hurdle in the process. Your maturity throughout all of this has been impressive. And now, welcome to freedom!

    As for “You do not have to feel American in order to have an American passport”… of course, the converse is also true. Being American, if that’s what you want, is a state of mind and a set of ideals, and far more meaningful than a bit of government paper.

  8. May I be the first to congratulate you, A, on successfully getting over the largest hurdle in the process. Your maturity throughout all of this has been impressive. And now, welcome to freedom!

    As for “You do not have to feel American in order to have an American passport”… of course, the converse is also true. Being American, if that’s what you want, is a state of mind and a set of ideals, and far more meaningful than a bit of government paper.

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