RE: [ZION] Exit Visas
Marc Schindler: I think you're allowed to take $10,000 (as long as you file) but ultimately there's a limit, but I don't know what it is. ___ If the baggage handlers here don't get it, I think the limit is equal to the amount you are carrying plus $10 at the destination airport. Most of them call it an entry tax or an airport tax. And you usually won't get a receipt, but there is no paperwork, either. [grin] Larry Jackson / /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
RE: [ZION] Exit Visas
At 07:03 PM 9/30/02 + Michael L favored us with: >Citizens of the USA who attempt to leave the country will large amounts >of cash can have that cash confiscated under the tax evasion laws. The >presumption is that they owe income taxes and they are trying to cheat >the government is sufficent evidence to confiscate their cash. I don't >know how often this is done, but it is the law. What if they can prove that they have paid their taxes on it? Are they then permitted to take whatever amount of money they please. If not, then we are a totalitarian state indeed. John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] * For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. (Ephesians 6:12) * "All my opinions are tentative pending further data." --JWR / /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
RE: [ZION] Exit Visas
John W. Redelfs wrote: > How many nations are there? Of that number how many will allow their > citizens to freely leave the country with all their possessions? --JWR > > > I believe no country allows their citizens to freely leave the country will all their possessions - not even the USA. Citizens of the USA who attempt to leave the country will large amounts of cash can have that cash confiscated under the tax evasion laws. The presumption is that they owe income taxes and they are trying to cheat the government is sufficent evidence to confiscate their cash. I don't know how often this is done, but it is the law. / /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [ZION] Exit Visas
Actually, while Mark is treating us to his usual dry humour, he's probably right. It was intended as an anti drug money-laundering measure, but if you take more than $10,000 out of the US you have to fill out a declaration put out by the US Treasury. I think you're allowed to take $10,000 (as long as you file) but ultimately there's a limit, but I don't know what it is. Mark Gregson wrote: > > > How many nations are there? Of that number how many will allow their citizens to >freely leave the country with all their possessions? --JWR > > I believe that there are zero (0) countries with sufficient government resources >that will allow their citizens to freely leave the country with all their >possessions. For example, heaven help you if you try to leave the US after >converting all your possessions to cash and then carry that cash with you. I do hope >that you will someday be allowed to see the light of day again. > > You could probably leave, oh, say the Cook Islands with all your cash because the >government can't afford the resources to stop you (assuming that you didn't leave >through an authorized port). > > So it sounds like there are zero (0) truly free countries in the world. > > = Mark Gregson [EMAIL PROTECTED] = > > > -- > __ > > Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ > > Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ > > Powered by Outblaze > > / > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > / > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." --Michelangelo Buonarroti Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the authors employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. / /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [ZION] Exit Visas
> How many nations are there? Of that number how many will allow their citizens to >freely leave the country with all their possessions? --JWR I believe that there are zero (0) countries with sufficient government resources that will allow their citizens to freely leave the country with all their possessions. For example, heaven help you if you try to leave the US after converting all your possessions to cash and then carry that cash with you. I do hope that you will someday be allowed to see the light of day again. You could probably leave, oh, say the Cook Islands with all your cash because the government can't afford the resources to stop you (assuming that you didn't leave through an authorized port). So it sounds like there are zero (0) truly free countries in the world. = Mark Gregson [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze / /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [ZION] Exit Visas
I think we can fairly assume that all OECD countries fall into this category. Many third world countries have at least currency restrictions, which would not be, strictly speaking, being allowed to leave the country with all their possessions. I found this out the hard way the first time I visited Egypt. I had about $50 worth of Egyptian currency left and tried to buy another currency with it only to be told that only amounts in excess of US$500 worth of Egyptian pounds could be converted for export (and there's no way I'd spent that much), so I figured, what the heck, and bought a beautiful brass and copper dish with a picture of Nefertiti on it in the airport gift shop. "John W. Redelfs" wrote: > How many nations are there? Of that number how many will allow their citizens to >freely leave the country with all their possessions? --JWR > > / > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > / > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." --Michelangelo Buonarroti Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the authors employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. / /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
