Want to not pay taxes? You must renounce your US citizenship. Want to renounce your citizenship? You must now pay an expatriation/exit tax on your assets that can range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for some retirees.
If you are born in the United States, you are truly stuck here and forced to pay a forever tax by virtue of being alive.
Also, according to expat chitchat, Vanguard is particularly good at sussing out clients who claim Stateside addresses but don’t actually live there.
I understand that, if you're working and making any reasonable amount of money, you're going to get hit with a lot of double taxation, which sucks. Plus FATCA and the other annoyances.
But say you're retired with a modest burn rate. Then, between the Foreign Tax Credit and the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, you won't really have to pay much in US tax, right?
(Not exactly) Pro-tip: if you are in pretty much any EU country, and have anything on top of earned income (rental income, any form of government-paid benefits), you are possibly better off not claiming the FEIE - there’s a reason you have to specifically request it when filing, and it’s not because the IRS want to be jerks (about that, anyway).