I think taxes should be meant as a contribution to the services to are getting (pension, roads, schools). If you are not living in a country, you shouldn’t pay taxes there. In the other hand, a company that ID physically on US soil should pay taxes there
If you make a fortune from your connections to an economy, people, and society; wherever you may live personally, it makes sense for you to contribute back to that society. You may not directly benefit from its roads, but you make money from the people who do. Money you wouldn’t be able to have without those roads.
That becomes very faint as a connection. If you live abroad and have no economic connection to my country of origin. Why should you pay? And how can you legally determine or versus the other?
If I were born and raised abroad, held no assets in your country, was never paid by anyone in your country, I wouldn’t have anything for them to tax. I’d just be some random foreigner. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
You can still have US nationality while living abroad (maybe being born on US soil or maybe not). Why should you then still pay taxes in US? You are not using “US services”
Nationality is a cultural thing, doesn’t matter legaly.
Citizenship is what I think you mean.
If you left the US as an infant with citizenship. You still have all the benefits of being a citizen abroad. You can turn to the US embassy or consulate with any problems you have. You can visit the US any time you like, without asking for any permission. You could decide on a whim to move there one day, no questions asked. You can even vote for President in elections.
If you were raised in the US, went to school there, maybe university; your career is built on the services provided by US tax payers. Paying back into that system that made you who you are is only the right thing to do. And you still have all the previous reasons as well.
If you ever really decide you’ll never go back, and have nothing to gain from US citizenship, you can renounce it any time you like. And just like that! No more US taxes.
I think taxes should be meant as a contribution to the services to are getting (pension, roads, schools). If you are not living in a country, you shouldn’t pay taxes there. In the other hand, a company that ID physically on US soil should pay taxes there
If you make a fortune from your connections to an economy, people, and society; wherever you may live personally, it makes sense for you to contribute back to that society. You may not directly benefit from its roads, but you make money from the people who do. Money you wouldn’t be able to have without those roads.
That becomes very faint as a connection. If you live abroad and have no economic connection to my country of origin. Why should you pay? And how can you legally determine or versus the other?
If I were born and raised abroad, held no assets in your country, was never paid by anyone in your country, I wouldn’t have anything for them to tax. I’d just be some random foreigner. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
You can still have US nationality while living abroad (maybe being born on US soil or maybe not). Why should you then still pay taxes in US? You are not using “US services”
Nationality is a cultural thing, doesn’t matter legaly.
Citizenship is what I think you mean.
If you left the US as an infant with citizenship. You still have all the benefits of being a citizen abroad. You can turn to the US embassy or consulate with any problems you have. You can visit the US any time you like, without asking for any permission. You could decide on a whim to move there one day, no questions asked. You can even vote for President in elections.
If you were raised in the US, went to school there, maybe university; your career is built on the services provided by US tax payers. Paying back into that system that made you who you are is only the right thing to do. And you still have all the previous reasons as well.
If you ever really decide you’ll never go back, and have nothing to gain from US citizenship, you can renounce it any time you like. And just like that! No more US taxes.