Reply #20: Most other countries don't claim the right to tax citizens who live abroad

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If you're a US citizen and marry someone in another country and settle there, you still have to file and pay US taxes. For example, a friend of mine married a Thai lady and they moved over there, but he still has to file by April 15 same as if he lived here. The calculation of taxes is somewhat different for people abroad, and paying Us income taxes offsets his requirement to pay taxes in Thailand (most countries have tax treaties to prevent double taxation) but it's pretty weird all the same. I think he hasn't even been back to the USA in the last 3 years or so, but that makes no difference tax-wise.

He's not a banker or anything, IIRC he's a film lighting technician.