"is it possible you have your answer but are unwilling to accept it?"
The simple answer to this is "No" as would be clear if you read my posts that lay out where "i read one thing here...but another here".
Asking questions is simply that. Confusion is simply that. It's not "unwilling to accept" it's "What the hell is the right answer?"
I'm even on forums for UK ex-pats living in the US & receiving pensions & none of them agree either. Some have claimed to have had to pay tax, some have claimed that they did not, while some have claimed they pay only some tax.
How anyone can extract being "unwilling" from all this makes my head spin more than what I've read about the actual subject in question to begin with.
