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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: who should pay for education. sort of.
Message-ID: <886@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 20:05:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 20:05:18 1987
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In article <222@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes, 
in response to Jim Robinson:

>Really? You know most of your postings lead me to believe you like the
>way the US runs it's affairs so I would expect you to know more about
>them.  When a US citizen (or possibly even resident) leaves the country
>they must continue paying taxes to the US government for the next 10
>years (you get to deduct from this taxes paid in your new country).

In 1978, I filed a non-resident U.S. tax return (actually 2, one to the
state of Massachusetts). Even though I indicated on the return that my
residence was in Canada, and that I did not plan to return to the U.S., I
carried on a lengthy correspondence with the IRS centre (oops, center) in
Philadelphia for several years, which only ended when I moved and didn't
give them a forwarding address. They get quite fussy if they think that
they're entitled to taxes. 

(For the record, in case a tax snoop is reading this: I still earn money in
the U.S., but live in Canada. I report all the income on my Canadian income
tax return, as I was instructed to do by Revenue Canada and by the IRS.)

I guess the IRS is really a communist front, eh?

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