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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The government taxes income from non-citizens in the country. I have no problem with that. I just see the justification for the taxation as relating to economic activity within the sovereign's jurisdiction, not a claim on the sovereign's part to reach into the wallet of its citizens wherever they may travel in the world. If I'm a U.S. citizen living in Milan and working in a factory there, I don't understand why the U.S. government should have a claim to take part of my wages. Italy, yes -- the U.S., no.
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People who live in countries where the taxation is based on residency are still taxed on their worldwide income. For example, if I live in Canada for 200 days out of the year, and yet I travel the rest of the time to third world countries as a sweatshop supervisor and make a bundle (and that's where all my money comes from even while I'm living in Canada), the Canadian gov't takes a chunk of that. Taxation based on worldwide income is the norm (I think). The US just claims a basis for taxation even if the citizen does not pass the residency test.
Anyhoo, this discussion is fascinating, but I'm going home.
