June 2017

Expatriation: More Americans renounce US citizenship but why?

Posted on June 5th, 2017 / Individual, US Tax

A record number of Americans renounced their US citizenship last year, what we call expatriation, but should this be surprising, as more and more US persons find out about their filing obligations and the complexity involved. I suspect the greater …

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