"Corps. ARE people my friend". They have several ways of not paying taxes, burgers move to Canada, techs move to Ireland,oil just holds money offshore in perpetuity, every trade deal cuts what the US. might collect and every ceo thinks full time about how Uncle Sam has invited his biz. off- shore , corps. that have a whiff of success leave at an ever rapid pace. Corps. don't pay our confiscatory estate taxes, etc. etc ............
read that shit again.
it doesnt say shit about corporations, nor their status as "persons"
this shit is for actual Natural Persons, not corporations.
"If you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien..."
neither of those terms applies to corporations, even if they are incorporated in the US.
those terms exclusively deal with actual people with a pulse (and those who recently stopped having one...), NOT legal constructs pretending to be persons.
so yeah, if you are an actual human type critter, and are a US citizen
or hold a Green Card, no matter where you are in the world, no matter even if you never intend to ever return to the US, you STILL pay every tax, income, estate, gift, capital gains, all of it.
this shit is NOT for corporations or CEOs
it is for EVERY US citizen or greencard holder.
if youre a foreign national who applied for a greencard and got it just before your last paycheck in botswana cleared...
yeah, you owe income taxes on that botswana paycheck bro.
expats working as waitresses in a cafe on the beach in tuscany?
gibs me dat tax money!!!
parents left the US a week after you were born, and you lived your whole life in the highlands of new zealand on a sheep ranch, and maybe dont even know you have US citizenship?
youre gonna owe a shitload of back taxes when the IRS gets their claws on your bank account thanks to facta.
also, who mentioned "corporate personhood" anyhow?
thats a wild pitch bro.