1376 Americans renounced citizenship for the third quarter of this year

1376 Americans renounced citizenship for the third quarter of this year

According to the Ministry of Finance in the third quarter of this year, 1376 Americans renounced citizenship of the United States, thereby pushing the annual rate of failures at record level in 2016.

If in the fourth quarter of this year, history will repeat in 2016, when immigrated 2 365 people, the total number of expatriates in 2017 will be 6 813 people. This is 26 percent more than in 2016.

The tempo of emigration of Americans to other countries began to accelerate in 2010 with the adoption of the Law on tax compliance accounts. He suppressed evasion of US citizens living or working abroad from paying taxes and demanded that the foreign institutions holding assets of immigrants and to report them, or to withhold tax at 30%.

In the list of celebrities who have emigrated once from the USA, was the writer T. S. Eliot (born in St. Louis), Director Terry Gilliam (born in Minneapolis), and Director John Huston (born in Nevada, Missouri). Last year the list was extended by the Minister of foreign Affairs of the United States Boris Johnson (born in new York). This year, the immigrant was John Coming.

According to the materials of Bloomberg

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