Tax Notes contributing editor Robert Goulder discusses how Pope Leo XIV’s American citizenship creates a unique tax issue and how the United States may try to avoid taxing the pope.  

For more coverage, read the following in Tax Notes:

• Expats Eye Pope's Tax Woes as Opportunity to Ditch Worldwide Tax
• Analysis: The American Pope and Citizenship-Based Taxation

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