Anastasia Tonello reveals the dangers of renouncing US citizenship for tax purposes

29 June 2018

Anastasia Tonello, Managing Partner and Head of the US Practice reveals the immigration risks facing individuals who renounce their US citizenship in order to avoid paying US tax. Anastasia highlights recent cases where former US citizens have been denied entry to the US, in a bid to exclude tax “refugees” from re-entering their former home country.

Read more from the Telegraph here.

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