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> "The United States is the only country in the world to tax its citizens
> on a worldwide basis, irrespective of whether they spend time in the
> country or whether they have assets there," said Philip Marcovici,
> a Zurich-based lawyer with international law firm Baker and Mackenzie.
> Under current expatriation law, there are wealth thresholds based on
> net worth which lead to a presumption that a person giving up U.S.
> citizenship is doing so for tax reasons.
> Individuals who have given up their citizenship and who have earned
> $100,000 in any one of the 10 years before expatriation, or who have a
> net worth exceeding $500,000, would automatically be deemed a so-called
> "taxpatriate." Those persons would be subject to ordinary income tax
> on U.S. source income for 10 years. They would also be subject to
> U.S. estate and gift tax during the 10-year period.
> Last month, Congress proposed a new exit tax on all citizens who give up
> their U.S. status. If the proposal becomes law, individuals will be taxed
> as if they had either sold everything or died. This would give rise to
> immediate exposure to capital gains tax.
> ... Australian cities overall scored particularly highly in the
> [Economist Intelligence Unit] survey [of desirability for expats],
> with all five the country's urban centres surveyed ranked near the
> Europe was also well represented among the top 10 places.
> The top US city, Honolulu, ranked 21st, with Boston, at 28th, the
> highest ranked city on the US mainland. Canada, in contrast, sneaked
> The UK cities of London, 44th, and Manchester, 50th, gained only a
> mid-table rating, with Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea bottom of