No Tax Please, I’m British, London Mayor Tells IRS

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London Mayor Boris Johnson will refuse to pay U.S. tax, defying American demands on him as a dual citizen.

“The United States comes after me, would you believe it, for the, for capital-gains tax on the sale of your first residence, which is not taxable in Britain, but they’re trying to hit me with some bill, can you believe it?” Johnson said on National Public Radio in New York in an interview first aired last week.