Taxgate Scandal Complaint to the ICC on Extraterritorial Taxation, Exit Taxes, and Much More

This will be part of a series exposing the entire Taxgate Scandal. The first part here is a complaint made to the International Criminal Court about some taxation crimes against humanity including tax residency, enforcement, reporting requirements, and more. The next part will detail some measures that you can use to challenge extraterritorial taxation and other practices to help end Taxgate once and for all. There will likely be many more installments to the Taxgate series after that. The ICC complaint follows:

Note: This complaint seeks Universal Jurisdiction by all countries and international bodies against the crimes against humanity included in this ICC complaint. Some of the people and organizations and governments are not in ICC member States. In many cases the ICC still has jurisdiction because these taxes and information are collected and distributed and other enforcement actions and tax cooperation occur within many ICC member states. Victims and assets are also located in ICC member States. In situations where the ICC doesn’t have jurisdiction, other countries should use it.

Many governments and international organizations along with people and organizations who aren’t part of governments and the international organizations have conspired and carried out Taxgate which includes taxation, tax reporting requirements, information sharing, and enforcement measures that are crimes against humanity and have violated long standing peremptory norms and brazenly continued practices banned by UN Security Council resolutions, and which were prosecuted as part of the Holocaust in international trials at the end of World War Two.

This complaint does not include every single possible and potential crime against humanity regarding the Taxgate subject matter. Anything not covered here should also be investigated. This complaint focuses on tax residency and practices associated with tax residency. It also includes various compliance and reporting requirements that create an additional burden and require the provision and sharing of information. It also covers the outrageous and draconian enforcement actions against people and entities and organizations that violate human rights.

Tax residency without spending the majority of the year physically present in a jurisdiction along with the person intending to have spent that time there and exit taxes have long been regarded as crimes against humanity. Exit taxes were prosecuted as crimes against humanity as part of the Holocaust as Nazi Germany used it to restrict and disincentivize their political opponents (including ethnic minorities) from leaving. They then mass murdered those who stayed. The Nazis hadn’t figured out that you could tax them even after they’ve left or even if they’ve never been there at all. Apparently even Hitler wasn’t that bad (obviously this only includes tax and not the mass murder). Many countries tax people who have left or in some cases have never even been there. You can even pay a massive exit tax to a country you’ve never been to. You may have never heard of the country before they sent you a tax bill and can’t find it on a map. The crime against humanity of extraterritorial taxation and exit taxes knows almost no bounds.

Some countries tax based on whether someone is a citizen or a permanent resident or even formerly a citizen and formerly a permanent resident even if they had never been to the country or if they never even wanted the citizenship or permanent residency. Some countries only do this for a set time period but they claim that they could in theory do it forever (if you leave a country they claim they can tax you for however much they want for an unlimited amount of time). Some countries claim that if you don’t have another tax residency that they agree with that you can become a tax resident again and that you can in theory lose and regain tax residency multiple times while not being present in the country and be forced to pay exit taxes several times. Of course they will try to charge you all sorts of penalties when they retroactively try to apply these taxes. Countries often also base this on whether you have ties to the country. Of course the government of that country gets to determine what is a tie that makes you taxable. It could be anything. Germany for instance claims that if you stay in the same place when you visit Germany you can be a tax resident. So if you travel to Germany for a week a year to visit family and stay in their guest bedroom you could be a tax resident. Japan has even tried to apply tax residency to people who have too many pictures of them eating sushi on their social media profiles. The Japanese one is fictional, but it actually sounds quite similar to a lot of the tax rules and tax cases that governments pursue.

These countries often demand that whoever they deem tax resident must file comprehensive disclosures and reporting for all sorts of information that the tax authorities and governments desire. Oftentimes many of these requirements are far tougher and costlier to comply with then the actual taxes that need to be paid. Even the smallest error or omission is often punished severely especially because many countries are part of a global tax cartel. Countries can be punished for not joining the cartel where tax authorities work together to spy on people and steal whatever governments desire. The tax authorities use systems like FATCA , CRS, and tax information exchange agreements to share your data with each other and to require most financial institutions to participate with this cartel and their crimes against humanity.

These countries seek to force people to have potentially unlimited tax residencies along with unlimited reporting requirements and unlimited data collection. This goes beyond just nation state governments. Other governments like subnational states and provinces try to establish more tax residencies and reporting requirements and data collection. Then there are cities and local municipalities. This doesn’t include international blocs who can try to implement many of these same requirements. Double taxation or triple taxation or even more levels of taxation relief aren’t guaranteed and often don’t happen at all. This relief can and does get taken away. For instance, the US infamously drastically reduced their SALT deductions which provided some relief from multiple taxation by various levels of US government and had existed for around a century. A second example: Hungary taxes many Hungarians living abroad with no double taxation relief if they aren’t in a country with a tax treaty.

While the insanity of the crimes against humanity of exit taxes and of taxing and reporting requirements for people who live for less than half a year in a country and who live there for more than half a year, but don’t intend to live there are devastating in and of themselves. That’s not the worst part of it. The worst part of it is what they do to enforce it. UN Security Council Resolution 2023 which was passed unanimously in 2011 further confirmed the peremptory norm that such taxation and reporting requirements are crimes against humanity. The resolution sanctioned Eritrea for using extortion, threats of violence, fraud and other illicit means to collect taxes. China now denies household registration to anyone who doesn’t pay taxes meaning that it would be virtually impossible for someone to move back to China if they lost their household registration. Lifetime exile (with maybe occasional returns as a tourist) is the punishment. The US denies passports to people who they claim owe too many taxes. They frequently jail people who don’t pay their extraterritorial taxes and who don’t comply with complex reporting requirements. The US government can and does try to seize assets throughout the world as part of their crimes against humanity. Australia barred the actor Paul Hogan from leaving the country when he visited to attend his mother’s funeral until he paid what they claimed he owed. Sure, he was allowed to go to court and contest this, but he wasn’t allowed to go home until he paid their ransom demand. Eventually he paid and was then able to travel to his longtime home in the world’s most abusive tax haven... Los Angeles, California.

Sometimes governments will even claim that you resided in the country for tax purposes even if you weren’t there. Spain for instance has what they call “presumed days” where they just assume you were there with no proof. In order for that to go away you have to have absolute proof that you were not in Spain. But it gets much worse, because even if you were not in Spain in some cases Spain even counts days a person spent outside of the country as days spent in the country for tax residency. They just claim you spent time there when you didn’t spend time there which they call “sporadic absences.” Under Spanish tax law the government can ignore the facts of the case and tax you more. If this legal trend of ignoring reality continues soon Spain will convict people of murder even if the defense at trial calls the victim as a witness who performs cartwheels and backflips to prove that he’s really alive and well.

In many cases the people who carry out these crimes never face accountability and are even rewarded for committing them. This even happens if the country they work for deems their work illegal. In Spain for instance the tax agency pays out substantial bonuses to tax collectors even if the taxes are illegally assessed under Spanish law. The singer Shakira has recently won a tax case in Spanish court. The tax collectors who illegally persecuted her still get to keep their bonuses and their jobs and will suffer no adverse consequences for their actions. Shakira will get her money that they stole from her refunded with interest, which will be paid by all the other people’s paying taxes. The people responsible owe nothing. The Spanish government also won’t pay her for all the pain and suffering and stress that she endured wasting her time trying to recover her stolen money.

Defenders of taxation claim that taxation is supposed to help countries fund things for the common good of whoever is raising the taxes whether it’s a country or subdivision of a country etc. This is an easily provable lie. Many countries will tax people more if they moved to a low tax country then if they move to a high tax country. Why will they tax you differently because of which country you moved to? After all doesn’t the country need the money to fund important things like their budget for health care, schools, roads, defense etc.? That’s not true at all. In fact, these countries openly state that they don’t care if they get tax money from you, they just want you to pay taxes somewhere. This is an admission that they aren’t interested in paying for roads or schools or healthcare or whatever. They just want to make sure that people have less money. It’s clearly designed to persecute people who move to more efficiently run places. It gets worse because countries will often incentivize the payment of taxes to their enemies. Then they demand more tax money the pay for things like defense even though they created the problem. Of course this leads to more wars and more death. (One of the biggest arguments for taxation is to fund more wars.) For instance many Western countries have long incentivized tax collection and reporting systems and the payment of taxes to countries like China and Russia who have literally used that money to attack the Western countries and then require the Western countries to send aid to places like Ukraine that have been attacked. This was literally caused by taxation funding these enemy regimes. Both of these regimes use the money that they receive to build and maintain nuclear arsenals that could destroy the civilized world at any point in time. The pro tax people are stealing everyone’s money to finance potential nuclear holocaust. They are trying to force people who are not in those countries and in many cases our escape dissidents or targeted minorities or refugees to pay for their own persecution first through which are then used to finance other forms of persecution. Even in war there is no guarantee that financial data (which governments have tons of on almost everyone) wouldn’t be shared and that taxes wouldn’t continue to be remitted to the opposing governments who are at war with them.

Systems like FATCA and CRS get most global financial data but many countries still require comprehensive reporting requirements for people to fill out which carry stiff penalties if you a make a mistake. All tax authorities do is compare the data they already have from systems like FATCA and CRS and if you got one thing wrong they hit you with massive fines and possibly jail time. They have all your information already so it’s just a way to entrap you if you just make a mistake filling out forms.

The crime against humanity of extraterritorial taxation and reporting and other compliance requirements is now so out of hand there is talk of making entire countries tax resident of other countries. Perhaps the craziest example is that of Pope Leo, a US citizen recently elected Pope, which makes him a head of state and an absolute monarch of the country known as Vatican City. Soon after his election a May 10, 2025 Washington Post article by Victoria Craw and Julie Zauzmer Weil claims that Pope Leo would have to report the finances of Vatican City to the IRS so that the IRS could audit another country and potentially take all of its money in taxes. Under this reasoning could any country force another country to hand over all of their financial data and then pass laws to just take that country’s wealth? A bigger example was Rishi Sunak, who controlled the United Kingdom’s treasury while being a US permanent resident (which means the US claims he is a tax resident). Donald Trump deposited money under US government control into financial accounts in Qatar. It’s not publicly known what if any compliance and reporting occurred and what taxes were paid, and whether the US government tried to enforce anything in these 3 situations (it’s pretty obvious they aren’t going after Trump right now and it may have been part of the reason why he got the US DOJ to say that it will never audit his taxes).

The global tax cartel, where they try to get every country to work together and loot as much money as possible fuels corruption and waste and kleptocracy around the world. It also fuels other crimes against humanity meaning that by participating in this tax cartel and doing things like tax information exchange agreements and FATCA and CRS, they are also committing the tax crimes against humanity and helping fund these governments and the other crimes against humanity that they undertake. All sorts of human rights violations and crimes against humanity happen around the world all the time and most of them don’t really get punished. By helping commit these tax crimes against humanity to fund these other crimes against humanity everyone involved is part of all the crimes against humanity. Various organizations advance this tax cartel and crimes against humanity agenda like the OECD and FATF are also some of the biggest crimes against humanity committing organizations on the planet.

The concept of countries and their subdivisions to just tax anyone and anything anywhere for any amount is unworkable, if multiple countries and their subdivisions tax everyone for more then they have and make. Furthermore one country could randomly just target people who aren’t there and just take all their money. People might claim that taxing people who aren’t physically present is bad but 183 days let’s them spend way too much time there. They think we should ignore well established peremptory norms and we should let government’s limit that. Where does that end? When governments say that you stayed there for a couple days on a holiday so now you’re a tax resident. Maybe it’s because your plane happened to fly through that nation’s airspace. Tax residency also can’t just include 183 days or more of physical presence, you have to have intended to be physically present there. If a country put you in jail or won’t let you leave then why should you pay taxes there because you clearly didn’t want to be there and they forced you to be present there so they could steal your money. We’ve seen with the global tax cartel and the OECD and FATF and all these other groups and governments that they know they are committing crimes against humanity with taxation and don’t care. They can never be trusted to draw any sort of line or have any flexibility or leniency when it comes to this. There must be prosecutions and accountability every time they even think of doing this. Taxgate has caused too much damage too humanity. It must be stopped.

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