"It is also important to note that FATCA’s requirements are the same
for all American taxpayers—expats are treated no differently. All
citizens are required to comply with United States’ tax laws and FATCA
is a tool to enforce them. Tax evaders should rightly worry that FATCA will reveal their illicit activities."
Mark J. Marzur, Assistant Secretary for tax policy, United States Treasury Department
(1) The Master Nationality Rule says that every country has the right to consider their resident citizens as only their citizens and not the citizens of any other country; (2) the Dominant Nationalty Rule
says that a so-called dual citizen has the right to protection of the
country with which they have the closest ties; and (3) The Rule of State Non responsibility,
a state, has no right to protect a citizen–or steal from them–if they
are currently inside a country in which they have citizenship. FATCA
conforms to none of the international rules of dual citizenship.
The above statement of the Assistant Secretary raises a serious moral
issue. If the US Treasury wishes to ignore international law, then it is the
United States which is involved in the illicit activity.
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