The deputies condemned on Tuesday July 26 the American extraterritoriality which imposes on French citizens born in the United States to pay taxes there, by approving against the opinion of the government a symbolic amendment which will not have an impact on international conventions .
The amendment, tabled by opposition MP LR Olivier Marleix and backed by the opposition, aims to address the long-standing problem of so-called "
accidental Americans
", US-born French citizens who are "
subject to income tax in the United States, although without having lived there
”.
The text “
calls for reciprocal application
”.