A total of 1,335 people renounced US citizenship during the first three months of the year, topping the previous record by 18 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The new figure puts 2015 on track to exceed last year's 3,415 renunciations, which is an all-time record.
The data released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) includes the names of those who renounced their citizenship, but not their reasons for doing so. However, it comes as the US government is becoming more aggressive when it comes to the assets of the estimated 6 million Americans who live abroad.
The United States is the only country within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside.
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