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Honeycombe8

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7. #1-Depp has owned an island in the Bahamas since 2004.
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 09:51 PM
Sep 2012

#2 - Depp has owned a castle in L.A. since 1995. He may own more houses there.

#3 - He owns a mansion in Venice.

#4 - He owns a vineyard and mansion in the south of France.

#5 - He may or may not still have a home in Paris.

#6 - His kids go to school in America. His parents and siblings live in America.

#7 - He is an American citizen.

#8 - He is mega-famous and has a gentle nature. He said he likes to live away from the hoopla, papparazzi, and violence.

#9 - It doesn't make him conservative or greedy not to want to pay taxes in two countries. Who would want to do that? That's stupid.

#10 - He is apparently content with paying the low American taxes and is not out fighting to prevent his American taxes from going up.

#11 - He could simply give up his American citizenship and pay just France's taxes. But as he said, he's not ready to give up his American citizenship.

It's like taking the mortgage deduction on your taxes. It's not conservative or greedy to take it. It would be stupid not to.

Paying your fair share but not wanting to pay double is very different from not wanting to pay your fair share in a reasonable progressive tax country, such as in America.

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