Wesley Tanaka (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wtanaka) wrote,@ 2008-06-13 09:29:00 |
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It's expensive to renounce your U.S. passport
It's the coverage of the random but useful stuff like this that I really like about the Economist (and non-mainstream-American media in general)
It's the coverage of the random but useful stuff like this that I really like about the Economist (and non-mainstream-American media in general)
. . . become law by June 16th, any American who wants to surrender his passport has only a few days to do so before facing an enormous penalty.
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That penalty is buried in an innocuous piece of legislation with the veto-proof name, Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax (HEART) act.
