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Posted on 03/16/2026 12:07:48 PM PDT by Whatever Works
The Brief
* The State Department has reduced the fee to renounce U.S. citizenship from $2,350 to $450, an 80% decrease.
* The change took effect Friday after years of legal challenges from groups representing Americans seeking to give up their citizenship.
* The fee had been raised in 2015 amid a surge in renunciations tied partly to stricter U.S. tax reporting rules for Americans living abroad.
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How about NO welfare, medicaid, soc. security or SBA loans for any migrants?
Should include a ticket to Uganda.
Trump cutting prices right there!
Go libs! Please, go!
There should not be a fee to renounce citizenship.
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a program in May 2025 offering a $1,000 stipend and travel assistance to undocumented immigrants who choose to “self-deport”. This initiative, accessed through the CBP One app, aims to reduce the costs of detention and removal, which averages over per person, by encouraging voluntary departure.”
The US should at least be as generous to “disaffected Democrats”, socialists, communists, anarchists and other radicals who wish to surrender their US citizenship and adopt that of foreign nations. As well as giving them a free one-way trip.
Did you read the headline correctly?
In fact, give 'em a bonus to do it.
Still (I think) the highest in the world.
Better.
The big fee is that renouncing citizenship is a taxable event financially. All financial assets ae immediately marked to market and taxed as if they were sold at their price that year.
Or, that’s how I understand it... CPAs, please add to or correct.
I agree. It seems almost punitive.
If you can’t get two rich lesbians that ran off to europe to renounce US citizenship I doubt this will make a dent
If you live in Switzerland or have IT business in much of Eastern Europe your income tax is 10-15%. The top US rate is 37%. You will also have to pay for social insurance, but that is a few hundred dollars per month.
Even if you pay local income taxes you still have to file a US return, and maybe you pay more tax or not, depending on the tax treaty. But if you make a mistake or fail to file a foreign deposit form the fines can be thousands per day.
You're in jeopardy of going bankrupt or being arrested because the IRS changes any one of a myriad of rules.
It's not surprising many Americans living a working abroad renounce their citizensip.
We should offer to pay for renunciations.
I think we should offer $500 in cash to renounce and be gone.
The fee should be incurred if, after renunciation, you want it back.
why not make it free..
I don’t want them coming back. make it easy to leave.
isn’t one already back?
Ones supposed to be back temporarily, the other is set to come back permanently if not already here.
That kind of self absorbed sense of entitlement can’t stand to not have people’s attention to some degree.
Once again we’re getting the wrong kind of people - high earners - to renounce their citizenship.
Our tax and welfare system punishes the high earners and rewards the slugs.
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