Posted on 07/11/2011 7:53:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: My ex in-laws.
They told the IRS to pound sand and will never come back to this country
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Some questions come to mind:
1) Were they American Citizens?
2) What is a better place than America when it comes to taxes?
3) Were they simply allowed to tell the IRS to pound sand without this brutal firm chasing them all over the world? The IRS even now has successfully bullied the Swiss to give up the names of their American depositors.
Nope.
Not in a public forum.
Don't ask me how I know, either.
Regards,
I have never been asked by a US government official for any type of ID when departing the country. The airlines want to see your passport and visa if necessary only because they don't want the expense of flying you back if your are denied entry.
US Border/Customes agents only ever asked me for ID when I returned to the US not when I departed.
I suppose a PI might be more skillful than your average FBI agent so you would be “safe” to say “no,” but who knows what got snarfed into an Obamacare computer system before it was shredded? And due to HIPAA it would be a royal pain at best to get the “confidential” information — even if you were the executor of that person’s estate — but for Uncle Sam it’s easy.
Ditto that!!
Yes.
2) What is a better place than America when it comes to taxes?
Costa Rica, Ireland, Iceland, Mexico. New Zealand. Any number of places.
As a side note, I recently enjoyed both tobacco and alcohol products in Spain without the fear of being harassed or arrested. A few weeks ago, my daughter expended several magazines out of a select-fire AK-47 she bought for $50 at seagulls off the deck of a beach house in Guatemala with no consequences and no concerns or comments from the onlookers.
3) Were they simply allowed to tell the IRS to pound sand without this brutal firm chasing them all over the world? The IRS even now has successfully bullied the Swiss to give up the names of their American depositors.
Yes. They are invested in hard assets and local currency. If your next question is whether or not they are drug dealers, pimps or other nonsense; I will tell you that they are retired schoolteachers from rural NM, who also successfully dabbled in real estate and antiques.
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