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0 pointsPopeDotNinja5y ago0 comments

>> only the US is brazen enough to charge non-resident citizens income tax

Don't forget Hungary, Myanmar, and Eritrea, too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation

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"Hey, we're doing the same things as Hungary, Myanmar, and Eritrea" is not usually a good argument for anything.

Anyway, the Hungary part surprised me since I'm a Hungarian citizen living abroad and have never been bothered about tax. The Wikipedia table says residents of countries with tax treaties are exempt, and that should be pretty much all of them? The PDF link from Wikipedia is broken, which is normal for how the Hungarian government operates.

noir_lord5y ago

Same for my partner who is Hungarian though in her case it was one EU country to another (well it was at the time, won't be soon, bloody brexit).

perl4ever5y ago

Since the US has an exemption for foreign income, this seems like making overmuch of a technicality. It reminds me of the histrionics over the US not being officially metric by people from the UK.

oh_sigh5y ago

Well that's rich, coming from people who can't even stick with one system and have a weird mix of imperial, metric, and various archaic units - which is IMHO worse than just being on imperial.

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