"Jeremy Baskin" <baskin[at]nospam.com> wrote:

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Probably, yes. There are tax treaties and treaties on
enforcement of judgments, and those treaties may well
require that the US enforce EU tax obligations.

Stu

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"Jeremy Baskin" <baskin[at]nospam.com> wrote:

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First the GOOD news:
In the past the rule of thumb was that no country enforced
another country's tax laws or assisted in collecting their
taxes. In a Tax Court case of an airline pilot living in
Paris and taking the foreign earned income exclusion, my
recollection is the Tax Court was dismissive of his failure
to pay French taxes.

Now the BAD news.
While I have yet to read of any US Court enforcing the tax
assessments of another country, nothing surprises me anymore.
We are in a global economy so things are changing.

My take is that "the jig is up" and "it is time to get out
of town by sundown." Hopefully you have saved your tax-free
profits and can find work in the States.

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I am a US Citizen working in Europe on an EU passport since
1994. I'm equivalent of a US self-employed taxpayer and
have filed timely US tax returns using the foreign earned
income exemption, but no european returns.

The EU has finally realized people like me exist and are
seeking taxes, penalties, and intesrest. If I retrun to
the US and th EU makes assessmenta againt me, will the
US enforce those assessments.

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