Thousands of people took off their US citizenship

Complex tax affairs called a major factor of US citizens abroad removing their passports. (Illustration/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)

The number of Americans who take off their passports to penetrate a new record in 2014 with 3415 figures.



This number is up 14 percent from 2013, and 15 times more than in 2008, in which only 238 people who take off their American citizenship.

Analysts said the figures came from many of the expatriates who no longer want to deal with complicated tax affairs, which in recent years become increasingly worse.

Unlike most other countries, the US tax on all citizens, no matter where they live or where they earn a living.

The documents about the tax can be quite a lot, so that the expatriates are often forced to hire the services of an accountant to take care of. Accounting services, reportedly even reach US $ 1000 own.

Quoted from CNN, a US citizen who relinquish their citizenship says he feels emotionally.

Donna-Lane Nelson, 71, who lives in Switzerland, said the decision was extremely difficult.

"When I let go of my US citizenship in 2011, I felt very emotional to vomit outside the embassy," he said.

Although heavy, Nelson wrote on CNN that he had to relinquish his passport related financial issues.



(CNN Indonesia)