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One-in-four Americans living abroad plan to renounce citizenship or are ‘seriously considering’ it

The burden of filing US taxes is the top reason expats want to ditch US citizenship, according to a survey

While many taxpayers dread tax-filing season, Americans living abroad face even bigger yearly burdens, and those are now so frustrating that some want to ditch their US citizenship.

Roughly one in four American expatriates is “seriously considering” or planning” to renounce US citizenship, according to a survey from Greenback Expat Tax Services.

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