Late and messy,the Service has finally published its Taxpatriates lists for the last half of 2001.
I've updated my Official Taxpatriates Page: http://www.frissell.com/taxpat/taxpats.html and, as always, a .csv database is available at: http://www.frissell.com/taxpat/taxpats.csv. Not too much news generated by these lists. A casual perusal doesn't turn up any names that are famous (to me). The lists are messier than usual in that they are not sorted in any discernable order and contain fragmentary entries like: "Julienne". Perhaps the Service should hire me to so their list. Either because of increased patriotism or because the Feds had something better to do, the 4th Quarter featured only 21 renunciations -- the lowest number since the list was first issued in 1996. Here are the actual numbers from all the lists: 96Q490 97Q1237 97Q21205 97Q3254 97Q4116 98Q1136 98Q275 98Q3151 98Q436 99Q1128 99Q2107 99Q3118 99Q481 00Q1185 00Q289 00Q388 00Q469 01Q1225 01Q2122 01Q3123 01Q421 3656 DCF ---- "Western Civilization didn't invent tyranny, slavery, racism, or the oppression of women. What it did do is eliminate those evils (to the extent they have been eliminated). The rest of the world should be damn grateful and if they're not we should return them to the ancient tyrannies from which we so recently rescued them. Would serve them right."
