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No. Only dividends are subject to withholding taxes (and are taxed twice, once in the US at 15%, the remainder taxed at 27%). It's a crazy system.

Before you think of moving to Belgium: US citizens can't escape the IRS, no matter where they live, and so do pay capital gains tax.



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