I'm sorry guys, I don't mean to be rude or denigrate anyone's knowledge but each of us lives in our own bubble and our knowledge only extends to that bubble.

My bubble happens to include knowledge of how to become 'non-resident for tax purposes' in a country which taxes you on world wide income, does not allow ANY (no $90K per year as per the US) income to be excluded and considers you 'resident' if all you do is maintain a bank account in the country or own a piece of property or renew your driver's license. It may be that the IRS in the USA has no such thing as 'non-resident for tax purposes', I don't know.

But only a good tax accountant familiar with how to go about legally not having to file with the IRS can tell us all how to go about it. Do any of you live in that 'bubble'? It might well be the way out is to renounce citizenship or become a 'stateless' person. That would be an extreme but if you can pick up another citizenship (I happen to have 3) it isn't necessarily a big deal.