Johnathan Tepper: Why I'm giving up my passport

[Ad Orientem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/opini ... sport.html

[dualstow]

Good article.
At least the first $96,000 is exempt.
For those who earn more, though, paying U.S. taxes when you have only a tenuous connection to the States must be infuriating.
When I taught English overseas, I made very little money, but still had to report back to the States. Annoying.

[barrett]

Dualstow, You didn't have to pay "thousands of dollars" to your accountant, did you?

[dualstow]

Nope, my dad took care of it back then. Come to think of it, I was young and he was the stickler making me report it. 

[barrett]

Nope, my dad took care of it back then. Come to think of it, I was young and he was the stickler making me report it. 

Yeah, my accountant brother-in-law did the same for me when I was working overseas a lot in the 1980s. Some crap about tax compliance and yadda yadda yadda.

[MachineGhost]

Don't forgot to shut the door on your way out and turn off the light!

Seriously, Quicken TurboTax costs $95. 

These people are such wimps, so it's not exactly a brain drain.

It's cognitive dissonance because they just dont "want to deal".  Wah, wah, wah...

The more you know your finances in detail, the better the decisions you will make.

Cry me a river.

[MachineGhost]

Dude, you must be buying your software at Whole Foods, just like your cigs in the other thread. 
I have never spent more than $25 on Turbo Tax Deluxe or H&R Block's Tax Cut Deluxe. I will watch the ads and post links to the deals in a new thread if you'd like.

Dude, you must be buying your software at Whole Foods, just like your cigs in the other thread. 
I have never spent more than $25 on Turbo Tax Deluxe or H&R Block's Tax Cut Deluxe. I will watch the ads and post links to the deals in a new thread if you'd like.

Thanks for the heads up.  I did mean TurboTax Premier offline.  I'm in the Advantage plan but now I see they're offering it for less direct and also lowered the retail price so I'm not getting a deal at all for $98.  It's even less at Amazon!  Man, I knew I loathed Intuit, but not this bad!  ... I just spent almost $5 to send it back -- signature required -- for a refund.

I should have known better than to trust a corporation I loathe at its word.