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iamjdg commented on Next, the Supreme Court Decides How to Punish US Expats   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/voisin
ncmncm · 3 years ago
Wondering if renouncing US citizenship relieves this particular indignity. Retroactively, one might hope...
iamjdg · 3 years ago
Yeah this is an option. There is a fee and and exit tax audit. But I travel to the US frequently for visiting family and business and I worry renouncing would lead to border crossing troubles. Im not living outside the US because Im anti US. It’s just where my career took me and then I met my spouse, bought a house, had kids, etc. I don’t want to give up the citizenship of my birth country. So I will complain about the draconian US tax laws but I will probably just endure them for the rest of my life.
iamjdg commented on Next, the Supreme Court Decides How to Punish US Expats   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/voisin
iamjdg · 3 years ago
I’ve been a US expat in Canada for 21 years, and I can say the time and stress of US citizen based tax law is extreme. But every year I do it, send tons of info to the IRS, because I knew the laws, but I would love this burden being removed. I am not super wealthy, my net worth is ~$3 million which is from decades of a high savings/investment rate into primary retirement accounts and equity in my principal residence.

On a side note, another draconian US expat tax law, the US will tax US citizens on capital gains over the US limit on the sale of your foreign principal residence. Crazy right. Don’t live the US, maybe never have, but if you have US citizenship, accidentally or not, or a green card, they can tax you on the sale of a principle residence located outside US jurisdiction.

The US/Canada tax treaty is good in the sense I rarely pay double tax, except for some special circumstances (stock options), but it is a ton of paperwork, information, and stress that I didn’t mess something up. I worked in Germany for a couple of years, and when I wasn’t a Canadian tax resident (I am also a Canadian citizen) the Canadian Revenue Agency didn’t care about my German income and I didn’t have to file any information for it. It was bliss. But of course the US IRS cared. This tax filing years were nightmares.

iamjdg commented on Working for US company remote from Germany as A German citizen    · Posted by u/matriguy
iamjdg · 4 years ago
On contract, yes.
iamjdg commented on Ukraine: Russia plans biggest war in Europe since 1945 – Boris Johnson   bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politic... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
iamjdg · 4 years ago
If there are 190k Russian troops amassed at the border of Ukraine, wouldn’t this be an opportune time to take them all out? Trade offs being ethics and retaliatory considerations. I mean what is the end game here? Back to the status quo? Russian history has proven over and over again they will never likely be an open and forthcoming ally of the “west” for very long.
iamjdg commented on I was terrified of an eyeball injection   ctrl.blog/entry/eyeball-f... · Posted by u/CTOSian
iamjdg · 4 years ago
Not to brag, but to brag, this is nothing. I’ve had a gas bubble injected into my eye to repair a detached retina (pneumatic retinopexy).

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/w...

iamjdg commented on Inefficient Efficiency (2019)   medium.com/@kentbeck_7670... · Posted by u/absolute100
iamjdg · 5 years ago
If the two cups of coffee are for one person, I don’t think you want them at the same time, one might get cold.

I think you can start to heat again sometime during the drip phase. Start to enjoy your first cup while the 2nd cup is heating. Then the time between 2 cups being ready is shorter than option 1 and not at the same time as in option 2.

u/iamjdg

KarmaCake day514May 27, 2009View Original