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The US operates under world-wide income http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/U.S.-Citizens-and-Resident-Aliens-Abroad but under US law it doesn't matter where you live. For citizens of Germany it's world-wide income as well...

I feel bad in saying this but this has made me chuckle.

Nothing wrong with that, except he's a US citizen and bound by their tax laws. I'm sure you understand that we can't just ignore laws.

As I pointed out earlier, the double tax treaty is to facilitate payment of bills, not determine bills. As an example my tax is accessed in both the UK and Germany under the law of both countries. The treaty ensures I do not pay the same bill twice. How the bills are arrived at is independent of...

Shall we all tell our country our tax rules are wrong and tell them to **** off?

It's easy to give up, but almost impossible to get back I'd say.

As I understand it, this is to facilitate payment of tax bills, not determine tax bills. The idea being you do not pay the same bill twice. Boris will have two separate bills.

As a criminal certainly. And he has claimed he is of Turkish descent so it's surely Guantanamo for Boris.

There is no 'fault.' It's just a different way of doing things. If he does not like it then he could always relinquish his passport. He has dual-nationality so no one is forcing him to keep it.

Not at all. The law is quite simple and as Hans has stated.

It does not matter. As Hans has pointed out it is how their system works and it is on world-wide income.

The rules for US passport holders are different. As I understand it US passport holders have to pay tax above a threshold even if they are not resident in the US. So they are in effect taxed twice. The UK does not do this. But, as it happens, I do pay a small amount of UK tax on some UK earnings...

http://gu.com/p/43f85 This could get very interesting. If he hasn't been paying any US tax, which is what is being suggested, his back-dated bill will be huge.