The USA is the only country that requires tax returns & payments of expats that make no income from their home country and no longer live there. I'm not surprised many 'normal' people are very unaware of these facts when they move away from the USA.
On top of that you have huge accountant costs to file these complicated penalty prone returns even if you end up not owing any taxes year over year.
It's still 'negligence', your IMF example is just in part instead of in full.
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The USA is the only country that requires tax returns & payments of expats that make no income from their home country and no longer live there. I'm not surprised many 'normal' people are very unaware of these facts when they move away from the USA.
On top of that you have huge accountant costs to file these complicated penalty prone returns even if you end up not owing any taxes year over year.
It's still 'negligence', your IMF example is just in part instead of in full.
"expats that make no income from their home country and no longer live there."
And from American citizens by birthright, born outside of the US, and who have never set toe inside the country nor made a penny of US income.