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T. Paine's avatar

US citizens are required to report their income to the IRS no matter where they live, unless they renounce their citizenship (and then you owe an exit tax). If she never filed a tax return, she could be tried for tax evasion.

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Janet's avatar

Yup. Why she is stuck there. She left here at 19.

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Kenneth Lu's avatar

If she's poor enough and didn't owe taxes, there's no tax evasion issue.

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T. Paine's avatar

This is true. If you are under the filing threshold you have no obligation to file. Nowadays the limit is pretty high, however prior to the TCJA (before 2017), it was pretty low. There is no statute of limitations on willful tax evasion.

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