Lawyers claiming that huge numbers of Americans are renouncing citizenship to become British thanks to tax rise are having us on.
“London-based American lawyers, who specialise in tax and immigration, report a threefold increase over the last five years in the number of American citizens who are giving up their citizenship--a process known as “renunciation”.
“Across the world 1,781 Americans renounced their citizenship in 2011 compared with just 231 in 2008, when US tax laws changed, although it remains unknown how many are adopting British rather than any other nationality.” (telegraph.co.uk, March 2, 2013.)