????放棄美國國籍的潮流在2010年首次抬頭，當年有超過1,530人放棄了自己的美國國籍。此前一年，瑞士銀行巨頭瑞銀集團（UBS）跟美國國稅局達成了一項和解協議，內容包括向后者披露4,000多名美國客戶的姓名，以及就提供違反美國稅法的離岸銀行服務而繳納創紀錄的7.8億美元和解罰金。稅務律師認為，這起事件對這種潮流起到了推波助瀾的作用。

????今年1月，馬哈茂德?卡爾扎伊接受了自由歐洲電臺（RFE/RL）分支機構自由阿富汗電臺（Radio Free Afghanistan）的采訪。訪談轉錄文稿顯示，他表示：“我放棄美國護照和美國國籍的原因是，過去12年我一直在阿富汗工作。”他補充說：“我可能會積極投身政治，所以我決定放棄自己的（美國）護照。”筆者暫未聯系到卡爾扎伊就此事發表評論。

????根據3月份全球媒體的報道，卡爾扎伊是阿富汗最大銀行喀布爾銀行（Kabul Bank）的股東，這家丑聞纏身的銀行幾乎因欺詐行為而倒閉。而據伊莎貝爾?蓋蒂的Facebook頁面顯示，她是紐約大學（New York University）的學生。筆者暫未能聯系到她，發送給她母親（一位身在倫敦的電影制片人）的電子郵件也未得到立即回復。（財富中文網）

????譯者：王燦均

????Expatriations first picked up pace in 2010, when more than 1,530 Americans dumped their passports. Sparking that uptick, tax lawyers say, was a deal by UBS (UBS), the Swiss bank giant, the year before to disclose more than 4,000 American client names to the I.R.S. and pay a record $780 million for selling offshore services that violated U.S. tax laws.

????In January, Karzai told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Radio Free Afghanistan that "the reason I gave up my U.S. passport and citizenship is that I have been working in Afghanistan for the past 12 years," according to a transcript. He added that "I might become politically active, therefore I decided to give up my [U.S.] passport." Karzai could not immediately be reached for comment.

????Karzai is a shareholder of the scandal-plagued Kabul Bank, Afghanistan's largest bank that nearly collapsed due to fraud, according to global media reports in March. Getty, a student at New York University, according to her Facebook page, could not be immediately reached, and emails to her mother, a filmmaker in London, were not immediately returned.