Right, except the tariff gets baked into the price your importer pays to bring the product into the US. So while you don’t cut a check to the US Treasury, your buyer does, and that either makes your product less competitive or forces you to eat the cost in your margins. But yeah, “carry on”.
Well I wouldn’t say it’s better but it’s definitely less enshittified. Give it time, the owners of Sniffies have given no indication they have the ability to earn anyone’s trust.
That $126,500 number refers to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), but it’s not a hard threshold below which you’re totally off the hook. U.S. citizens abroad still have to file a tax return if their income exceeds the standard filing requirement (around $14k+ for single filers). And the FEIE only applies to earned income, not investment income or retirement income. It’s not automatic, you have to qualify under the bona fide residence or physical presence test, and file the right forms (like Form 2555) to claim it.
Even if you’re making well under $126k, you still have to file, and you might owe something depending on your situation.
If it makes you feel better, even if you migrate to another country and gain citizenship, you still have to pay income taxes to the US.
I’ve gone out of my way to avoid giving Microsoft money over their continual hypocrisy on almost virtually any issue I care about. Really, a shitty company that gets away with way too much.