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Our next tax trivia question is:
The US has tax treaties with 67 countries. How many of those has taxgirl visited?
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How about all 67.
I wish!
5
I’ll go for the other extreme: 1.
23
7
Haven’t been reading long enough to know — going with zero.
All great guesses, but not so far. One of you is extremely close!
zero
Oh Chris, that’s just sad! I do travel some!
Who knows, maybe you have a preference for treaty-free jurisdictions 🙂
And oh look at that, if I’d read butterflyfish’s guess more closely I would have known I was wasting my breath.
I will now readjust to 2.
I’ve visited 8 — how ’bout it — are we kindred souls???
Thomas,
You win! Of the countries that have tax treaties with the US, I’ve visited: UK, Italy, Austria, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Czech Republic and France. There are technically two others on the list that I poked my toe in, but don’t really count as a visit, since I never made it out of the airport in Japan and drove over the border (whilst lost) in Switzerland.