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May 16th 2006, 5:59 pm

#31

Bob

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Re: Citizenship Test

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Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts

But with the tax, isn't it also the case that as a GC holder you don't deal with US taxes if you don't live in the US but as a citizen you still have to file every year regardless of where you live?

If your living abroad, you ain't a US resident, so you'd lose the greencard...but also there's tax implications if you've had the greencard for donkeys of years and then bugger off, can't remember the details, but I think it's along the lines of having it for 8 years then you still have to file to the IRS for a few years after...someone posted link to the info about a week ago..

May 16th 2006, 6:04 pm

#32

Celsius

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Re: Citizenship Test

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Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts

But with the tax, isn't it also the case that as a GC holder you don't deal with US taxes if you don't live in the US but as a citizen you still have to file every year regardless of where you live?

Not so. Read this first-
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/...=96395,00.html
then click on the link on resident to get to this page-
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/...=96493,00.html