this might be a little bit of a longer post.
I am a US citizen, born and raised in Michigan, and I moved to Italy 15 years ago and have been living here ever since. I have recently taken up Italian citizenship while maintaining my US citizenship as both Italy and the US allow dual citizenship. The US is one of three countries in the world that taxes its citizens regardless of where in the world they live. The other two being North Korea and a small dictatorship in Africa called Eritrea. I am taxed by Italy and the US even though I have no bank accounts or property or anything in the US. My only tie to the US is my US passport. I have been thinking for quite a while about taking legal action against the federal government as this is very wrong. I am quite wealthy so I'd think I'd be able to afford the cost of a good lawyer and whatever other costs could result from a legal proceeding, in not sure how much it'd cost so if anyone has any ideas about what that would be like let me know. Yesterday while researching to my surprise I found out there has already been a Supreme Court case on the matter. The Judges ruled that US citizenship had benefits no matter where the citizen lives and therefore due to said benefits the us can tax the citizen as it pleases. This is total hogwash, my US passport has absolutely no benefits for me here in Italy, it actually creates problems for me, one of which is that many banks don't want to open accounts with US citizens as they don't want to have to do all the paper work of giving financial info to the IRS, they do this because Italy takes part in the FATCA treaty unfortunately. Anywho, would a secondary case be successful under the argument that the US citizenship does in fact NOT provide benefits to citizens resident outside of the US? Or would they come up with some other BS excuse to justify this?
I am a US citizen, born and raised in Michigan, and I moved to Italy 15 years ago and have been living here ever since. I have recently taken up Italian citizenship while maintaining my US citizenship as both Italy and the US allow dual citizenship. The US is one of three countries in the world that taxes its citizens regardless of where in the world they live. The other two being North Korea and a small dictatorship in Africa called Eritrea. I am taxed by Italy and the US even though I have no bank accounts or property or anything in the US. My only tie to the US is my US passport. I have been thinking for quite a while about taking legal action against the federal government as this is very wrong. I am quite wealthy so I'd think I'd be able to afford the cost of a good lawyer and whatever other costs could result from a legal proceeding, in not sure how much it'd cost so if anyone has any ideas about what that would be like let me know. Yesterday while researching to my surprise I found out there has already been a Supreme Court case on the matter. The Judges ruled that US citizenship had benefits no matter where the citizen lives and therefore due to said benefits the us can tax the citizen as it pleases. This is total hogwash, my US passport has absolutely no benefits for me here in Italy, it actually creates problems for me, one of which is that many banks don't want to open accounts with US citizens as they don't want to have to do all the paper work of giving financial info to the IRS, they do this because Italy takes part in the FATCA treaty unfortunately. Anywho, would a secondary case be successful under the argument that the US citizenship does in fact NOT provide benefits to citizens resident outside of the US? Or would they come up with some other BS excuse to justify this?