Bruzz - 'Accidental Americans' in Brussels: the price of a blue passport
In many cases, this does not result in additional tax, yet the obligation to file remains. “You can declare that you have no income, but you still have to follow the procedure like any other American citizen,” says Brandon Mitchener of the international advocacy group Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad (TFFAA).
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“We regularly hear from people who only discover later in life that the U.S. considers them citizens, while they don't feel like Americans at all. Then they think: What, I am an American? Just because I was born there? " says Mitchener.
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