>>>I just googled and found this page
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http://thelotterysite.com/taxes_on_your_winnings.htm>>
>>There's an interesting conundrum. Would someone give up their US citizenship to avoid paying tax on a lotto win? At what value would they do this? How much is that citizenship worth? I guess there might be a few who'd say "No amount".
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>I don't think that would matter. Seems to me it's about where you earned the money, citizen or not.
From what I read, no matter where the US citizen was in the world, he'd have top pay US taxes (this, as I understand, also applies to income tax, even if permanently resident in another country and working for a non-US firm, so long as saty US citizen)
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>Tamar
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