Pannes said there was not a specific sum that opened the door to people looking to move abroad for tax purposes -- it depended more on an individual's "pain" threshold.
Look at what the individual has done - is this a concerted attempt to have a go at one individual in a way that passes the threshold for offences against the law?
And, earlier this year, the IRS increased the threshold for a streamlined installment agreement allowing individual taxpayers to set up an installment agreement without providing a significant amount of financial information.
Mr. Nealon, 66 years old, works with handful of long-term partners also in their 60s who "have worked hard to get our individual accounts to a point that is near the threshold they're talking about, " he says.
But it stressed such a system "must be proportionate to the means of the individual" and asked ministers for more information on the income threshold for contributions.
There is a higher threshold for the imposition of a TPIM (reasonable belief that the individual is or has been involved in terrorism-related activity) than existed with control orders (reasonable suspicion of involvement in such activity).