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Boris Johnson has surrendered his United States citizenship. The move follows a number of rows between Johnson and the United State’s tax authority, the IRS. Johnson, a citizen of the United States by his birth, had to pay a hefty capital gains tax to the IRS. This because the United States...

In case you didn’t know it, America is weird. The US doesn’t have a national sales tax, VAT, or GST. Instead, the various local states can impose local taxes on the sale and use of goods and services. However, the states have limited abilities to tax a remote seller; if a seller has no local...