END DOUBLE TAXATION OF AMERICANS ABROAD

Republicans Overseas has released a white paper on how to end the double taxation of Americans abroad:  ‘Ending the Unjust Taxation of Overseas Americans.’  The paper provides three actionable recommendations, including the preferred legislative solution of completely severing citizenship from United States income tax policy.

Key points from the proposal include:

  • The United States, unique in the world, taxes its overseas citizens on their non-U.S.-source income.
  • The United States should align with the rest of the developed world and end the double taxation of Americans abroad.
  • Ending double taxation would allow Americans abroad to have normal financial lives in every country where they reside.
  • Ending double taxation would also allow overseas Americans to competitively operate their small, foreign businesses and would reduce the cost for multinational organizations to hire overseas Americans.
  • The best way to end double taxation is to be part of President Trump’s 2025 tax reform package.

Below is a chart comparing key forms of income taxation.

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Changing America’s income tax policy will be difficult. In order for this to happen, we need to:

  1. Elect a Republican President and elect Republican majorities in the House and Senate. Republicans will have control of the Presidency, Senate, and House. Thank you!
  2. Share ROF’s white paper with your elected representatives and candidates.  Explain the financial difficulties of living abroad to your government officials. You may have already told them this multiple times. Keep at it! And find candidates willing to support these changes.
  3. Lobby a Republican administration in the White House, the House Ways & Means Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee.  ROF will need to fundraise to support these lobbying efforts.
  4. Continue to petition and lobby your elected representatives. We will need to bring as much political pressure as we can muster.