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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Canada will not tax you if you are a citizen, but no longer reside in Canada. the US will.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation

Look at the map. Very few countries tax all citizens regardless of their residency in their worldwide income like the US does

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the US will.

But there's a US$130,000 exemption (the "foreign earned income exclusion") and tax treaties with many countries, so not many people actually need to pay extra tax to the USA. Realistically, the only time you need to is if you earn more than US$130k and the country you live in has a lower tax rate than the USA.

What hurts much more is the "exit tax" when you leave the USA (as a green card holder after 7 years) or renounce your citizenship.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm assuming if someone had $5m just lying around to buy citizenship, their income is well beyond the $130k exemption

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Being born here is increasingly an albatross to bear your entire life.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, that's completely true but unrelated to what you said in your original comment. I quote:

Why would anyone with that much money want to come here permanently

You were not talking about non-resident citizens, so stop moving the goalposts.

Plus, the US has one of the lowest tax rates of any of those "large countries" you talked about. So unless a US citizen resided in a country without a tax treaty with the US (there's not many of them), they're almost certainly being charged enough tax in their resident country that they pay $0 to the IRS on non-USA income.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was talking about non-residents, that's why I edited the comment. Resident non-citizens presumably have jobs here, and are already paying tax.