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Today we continue part two of our three-part series in celebration of tax season

called the case for your moving outside of the United States. I want to give you a very strong case for you to consider picking up your

household and moving outside of the United States. And although there may be many

reasons for you to personally consider that idea, things that you might choose to go after or things you might choose to say,

no, I'm happy where I am.

My primary case revolves around taxes. My primary case revolves around expense. Now you

should consider the personal lifestyle, the cost of living, any personal

techniques, any things that you would like better from another government to be under their

jurisdiction instead of the US government jurisdiction but I'm going to focus on

taxes as I mentioned yesterday I often get frustrated with tax planning because if you're going to follow the law as I do and as I teach and yet do good tax planning

it requires you to develop a portfolio, a tool belt with hundreds of little adjustments in your actions and behaviors

with a massive level of education for you to understand the moving parts of an

incredibly complex tax code and how each of your individual decisions and behaviors

and actions will impact that overall plan.

It is maddening how complex it is, and I've dedicated hundreds of hours of my life to trying to learn and

understand and figure out how to teach it. And yet all these little techniques work, but none of

them are that one big idea that could save you a lot of money. But the question is this, how much

money could you save if you simply walked away from the whole system.

For example, question, did you do your homework on yesterday's show?

If you live in a state that charges you state income taxes, did you sit down with your state income

tax return and calculate the actual numbers, the dollars that you are sending to your

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