Many American working men and women abroad are being penalized by being taxed by the United States despite having no income in the US. Retirement savings (e.g. Canadian RRSPs) and other basic income are being taxed despite often being already taxed in their home countries. This "citizenship based taxation" is considered across the world to be a human rights violation - such that the only other country in the world that practices it, Eritrea, was condemned for this practice by the US state department. Even non-citizens who may have been born in the US are subject to this law. Designed to target wealthy tax cheats, this law ensnares 17 million Americans abroad, and millions more non US citizens who were unfortunate enough to be born in the US, with no voice or vote to challenge it.
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