The Tom Wood Show, Episode 2183.

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The Tom Wood Show.

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Very glad to be joined today by Michele Thoroughup who runs

the X-PAT Money Summit, an event that I think you'll find quite interesting.

He has visited over 100 countries before the age of 40. He's a young pop this guy

and has lived in nine countries. He's been an X-PAT for over two decades and he has an extraordinary

amount of knowledge to share with you about the various international options you may have.

So Michele, welcome to the show. Thanks Tom. I'm really happy to be here.

Amazing audience, amazing program so it should be a good conversation.

Oh thank you so much. You and I have never spoken before but I love what you're doing and it's

very important. I've talked to a number of people about the subject of X-PATREATION

or second pass ports and that kind of thing as a kind of a backup level of security in case anything

goes terribly wrong, just in case. The off chance, something should go terribly wrong. But I've

been getting very, very discouraging responses to this that we people who think the way you and I do

would love to think that there are some wonderful places you can go where you'll get better tax

treatment, where you'll have an overall better experience with government and whatever else.

And I'm just not hearing that from the people I'm talking to. And they're saying to me, look,

there's just no getting around what's called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FACCA.

There's no getting around that. So you're not going to get the kinds of advantages you might

have gotten in the past through all these international means. So do you have a white pill,

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