{"id":2636,"date":"2014-12-08T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2014-12-08T07:01:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:01:20","slug":"why-im-giving-up-my-passport-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m Giving Up My Passport &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/08\/opinion\/why-im-giving-up-my-american-citizenship-passport.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=c-column-top-span-region&amp;region=c-column-top-span-region&amp;WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&amp;_r=0\">Why I\u2019m Giving Up My Passport &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"429\" data-total-count=\"429\">LONDON \u2014 THE mayor of London,\u00a0<a class=\"meta-per\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about Boris Johnson.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/j\/boris_johnson\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Boris Johnson<\/a>, who was born in New York and holds both American and British passports, recently said that he<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/11\/21\/365690481\/london-mayor-boris-johnson-owes-irs-money-wont-pay\">would not pay a tax bill<\/a>\u00a0from the United States on capital gains from the sale of his home in the London borough of Islington. Mr. Johnson pointed out that he hasn\u2019t lived in America since he was 5. He\u2019d like to renounce his citizenship, but said the process was \u201cvery difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"204\" data-total-count=\"633\">It is, but I am doing it. My \u201cin-person final loss of citizenship appointment\u201d is scheduled for Jan. 14 at the United States Consulate here. My British passport, acquired in 2012, will be my only one.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"387\" data-total-count=\"1020\">Some\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/02\/17\/pf\/taxes\/citizenship-taxes\/\">3,000 Americans<\/a>\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/totalreturn\/2014\/10\/24\/more-americans-renounce-citizenship-with-2014-on-pace-for-a-record\/\">gave up their citizenship last year<\/a>, a tiny number that\u2019s nevertheless been soaring. Yes, a few expatriates may be trying to avoid future taxes, as Senator Charles E. Schumer\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-05-17\/schumer-proposes-tax-on-people-like-facebook-s-severin.html\">accused<\/a>\u00a0the Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin of doing two years ago, when Mr. Saverin, who lives in Singapore, surrendered his passport ahead of the company\u2019s initial public offering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"258\" data-total-count=\"1278\">But most, like me, are not tycoons. We\u2019re responding to the burden and cost of\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101987302\">onerous financial reporting and tax filing requirements<\/a>\u00a0that are neither fair nor just. (Living and working in London, I pay higher taxes, to Britain, than I would in New York.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"258\" data-total-count=\"1278\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I\u2019m Giving Up My Passport &#8211; NYTimes.com. LONDON \u2014 THE mayor of London,\u00a0Boris Johnson, who was born in New York and holds both American and British passports, recently said that hewould not pay a tax bill\u00a0from the United States on capital gains from the sale of his home in the London borough of Islington. 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