Canada puts pressure on Eritrea – National Post – More from Stewart Bell
Prologue – December 2011 – The U.S. Supports U.N. Sanction Against Eritrea
Eritrea has put Toronto on the international map. As you know, Eritrea and the United States are the two countries in the world that practice citizenship-based taxation. Of course, the U.S. takes the position that it is wrong for Eritrea to use citizenship-based taxation. For an example of U.S. hypocrisy at it’s finest, see this video of Susan Rice at the United Nations. (Susan Rice apparently once worked in Toronto for McKinsey. It would be interesting to know whether she filed her FBARs). It is becoming increasing clear that citizenship-based taxation, in its application, may be in violation of international law.
Even the CBC “As It Happens” did a segment on this issue.
The Wednesday Edition http://t.co/Q7HXDfjv – CBC “As it happens” Eritrea – Is the U.S. behaving like Eritrea? Yes: http://t.co/iwoeO4nc
Ditto for the rest of the world:
Studio interview: UN report on Eritrea CCTV News – CNTV English:http://t.co/miSd218D
Is the U.S. really no different from Eritrea? Here are two interesting perspectives:
Resolved: Does citizenship-based taxation make the the U.S. like Eritrea? Yes: http://t.co/iwoeO4nc No: http://t.co/nkfVOMaX
But now, some excerpts from the National Post article:
“The answer is clear: Close the Eritrean consulate in Toronto. That is the sponsor of extortion, fraudulent fundraisers and violator of Canadian laws and international obligations,” said Ghezae Hagos, a Winnipeg-based Eritrean activist.
Funny this sounds so much like the United States:
Is a “fraudulent fundraiser” like the “FBAR Fundraiser“.
Is a “violator of Canadian laws” like the U.S. requirement that the Canadian banks ignore Canadian privacy laws?
Here’s more:
It (Eritrea) has no formal economy and is dependent on the taxation of the diaspora for financing.
We know many homelanders don’t pay tax, so why not get it from U.S. citizens abroad?
In relation to those who refused to pay the tax:
Those who refused to pay sometimes found their family members in Eritrea were being subjected to threats and harassment as a result, it said.
Finally, a clear difference between the U.S. and Eritrea!
For those who are U.S. citizens living abroad: are your relatives at home being subjected to threats? I have not heard of this. For this reason, we can safely conclude that the U.S. is different from Eritrea. But, let’s not give them any ideas.
Here is the article. Enjoy.
terroristfreedom fight, who is not in FBAR compliance, in order to make example of him for others? Will the IRS and their border thugs crucify him to show others how to behave? Am I willing to take that chance? Perhaps not.This got me to thinking that FATCA could also be reported to each European’s country for intimidation. Now, a single person will have difficulty finding something to report. However, it is a crime to report the financials of a corporation and also a violation of SEC laws (or their equivalents on whatever exchange). The FATCA rulebook says that a local crime is no excuse. This is the extortion.
The same applies to folks with a local spouse. It is a crime to be forced to report financials of another person.
I don’t have confidence that Sweden would defend me for being forced to report my own financials, although it probably would also be a crime.
So, it seems that any European resident could and should file a crime to their country’s Eurojust representative.referenced article:
http://www.thelocal.se/39304/20120224/
And also likely a crime to report someone else’s financials (this might be questionable in Norway and Sweden where the tax authorities publish personal income and banked assets on-demand, which are then published by the gossip papers).
I am still brainstorming for something to justify my own police report.
The case of Eritrea serves as an argument to show to the US that citizenship-based taxation is a practice of oppressive governments. But let’s not get carried away, the US is not like Eritrea. It would be like saying that the US is like Myanmar because they are the only countries that don’t officially use the metric system (by the way, Myanmar also used citizenship-based taxation before the recent democratic reforms there).
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