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The US is one of the only countries that still requires citizens living overseas to file and pay taxes. It’d be great if he further crippled the US war machine this way.
That gets thrown around all the time...
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion
But the exception to it is pretty rational and covers most people.
It's like how billionaires convince poor people that can't afford to retire that a tax only 2% of people will ever pay on inheritance is a pressing issue and society doesn't deserve their cut.of problematic levels of generational wealth.
Like, do you understand how ripe this is for manipulation by the wealthy to turn public opinion against the wealthiest few who pay these taxes?
C'mon man...
It's 2025, we need to learn to recognize this shit on our own, misinformation is going to keep getting worse.
Quick edit:
For clarity, you do still need to file federal taxes every year, even though you have zero withholdings and still owe $0.
But people get in trouble for not filing, same as people who live in Alaska. There's no debt for missed payments, but there may be fines/consequences anyways
Do you know if there are actual penalties for not filing? Most of what I've seen says that you have to pay a fine based on what you owe, but if you owe $0 they don't charge you for it. Some years I don't get around to filing because it's a little complicated and I'm pretty lazy about it. I always file the foreign bank declaration though because there's heavy financial penalties for not doing that.
I've known multiple people who lost federal security clearances for not filing their taxes for an extended period because they didn't owe anything.
But as far as I know they've never been fined or had charges pressed.
Very niche concern, but I don't 100% know all the scenarios, so it's best for people to find out for themselves about their own specific situation