LONDON – Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who was born in New York, has renounced his American citizenship.
Johnson’s name appeared on a U.S. government list Wednesday of people who had given up their citizenship last year.
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Johnson had called his dual nationality an accident of birth, and had described American tax laws as being outrageous. He had previously settled a U.S. capital gains tax bill for the sale of a London home before going on a U.S. tour in 2015.
American citizens are liable to pay U.S. taxes even if they live abroad.