I seriously doubt most acts of giving up US citizenship are done to avoid paying taxes while still wanting to live in the US. Most attempts to give up US citizenship seem to be done to avoid future headaches with family, business partners, employers, service providers and/or additional paperwork. Those are more common grounds for expatriation than avoiding payment of taxes.
Most adult US citizens abroad don't owe the IRS money, even as they mostly do owe paperwork to the IRS/Treasury.
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cbn42
When you renounce your citizenship, you get a Certificate of Loss of Nationality. You should carry it with you to prove that you are not a US citizen when traveling in the US, because without it, anyone whose foreign passport lists the US as place of birth is assumed to be a citizen.
Renunciation of US citizenship is a different process than relinquishment of US citizenship; and the consequences of each path to losing US citizenship are not all the same -- even as both result in a person becoming a former US citizen.
Many thousands of persons with foreign passports listing the US as place of birth are neither US citizens nor assumed (by the U.S.) to be US citizens.