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How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently

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113 points jimhi | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 18:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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idontwantthis ◴[05 Jul 25 21:03 UTC] No.44475523[source]▶
Another way for Americans is to qualify for the FEIE by working a remote job in a foreign country that isn't good at collecting taxes.
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eli ◴[05 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44475568[source]▶
Wouldn't claiming an exemption for foreign taxes that you didn't actually pay be fraud?
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coredog64 ◴[05 Jul 25 21:56 UTC] No.44475898[source]▶
Yes, but I’ll give a concrete example: I was an expat in New Caledonia. They have (or at least had) no income tax. The salary was below the amount that the US taxes for folks who are legitimately living outside the country, with a fair portion coming from a difficult to quantify housing subsidy.
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1. eli ◴[05 Jul 25 23:05 UTC] No.44476269[source]▶
Sure but the premise is "legally" not "can get away with it"

(Though, to be fair, I guess those two things aren't that different in practice)