The IRS’s Q2 2026 expatriation list is the fifth-largest ever published, putting the year on track to challenge 2020’s record of 6,707 names.
While tax is still the top motivator for expatriation, social polarization and violence have quickly become factors too, writes Mona Shah.
If the court says taxing unrealized capital gains is constitutional, more Americans will give up their citizenship. Ditto if it goes the other way, says David Lesperance.
The first installment in a four-part series on how to successfully expatriate from the US, with David Lesperance and Melvin Warshaw.
As US consular missions resume granting appointments to those unable to expatriate during the COVID years, expatriations are rising again.
Lesperance: “Half of my clients are concerned that the Democrats will keep the House [in November]. The other half are concerned they won’t.”
Just as Lesperance foresaw 18 months ago, citizenship renunciations among wealthy Americans are cratering. Here’s what he expects next.
David Lesperance says the US govt. is systematically suppressing expatriation and is hiding the true numbers to avoid encouraging more of it.
Thousands of Americans who wish to renounce their citizenship – a fundamental right – are barred from doing so under the pretext of COVID-measures.
