Nearly 5,000 people renounced their status as Americans in 2025, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service, marking the highest number of people to permanently give up their ties to the United States since 2020.
Thousands of people were listed on the Federal Register’s record of people who chose to expatriate, which tracks the number of people who give up their citizenship – often a tax-related reason for American citizens living abroad, or long-term residents who are treated as U.S. citizens by the IRS.
