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Podcast #80: Giving up on America

LISTEN: Why do 5000 Americans hand back their passports every year? Is it politics or another three-letter word they can’t talk about?

In this episode of The NBR Podcast with Simon Shepherd: Is Donald Trump pushing more Americans to renounce their citizenship? Or is it the fact that the US makes you pay tax wherever you live in the world?  Every year, thousands give up on ‘the land of the free’, including two Kiwi American families who describe how they had to navigate the tricky process to feel liberated.


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Simon Shepherd Tue, 28 Oct 2025
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