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Educational U.S. tax articles for Americans living abroad, including FBAR, FATCA, and Foreign Earned Income Exclusion topics.
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Tax Strategy
A parent can qualify as a dependent from abroad, but only if the citizenship gate and the income and support tests are met—and the support records survive currency and distance.
Foreign Spouses
A divorce or separation abroad forces three decisions in one year: filing status, dependents, and where each spouse is a tax resident. Here is the order to work through them.
Tax Strategy
Your first full calendar year abroad often decides whether the bona fide residence test, the physical presence test, or the foreign tax credit does the heavy lifting. Plan it in Q4, not at filing time.
Catch-up
Owing the IRS from abroad is a payment problem, not a filing problem. Installment agreements, currently-not-collectible status, passport certification, and how payment fits into a catch-up filing.
Tax Strategy
The LLC itself is rarely the hard part. Classification, self-employment tax, the FEIE interaction, state nexus, and the ongoing filing calendar decide whether the structure helps or just adds cost.
FBAR
A missed FBAR is a reporting failure, not automatically a tax bill. Here is what five missed years really means, why closed accounts still count, and what the review needs before you file a single year.
Tax Strategy
A partnership K-1 is not a paycheck. Abroad it creates three problems at once: timing, self-employment tax, and state withholding—and the year-end facts that decide all three.
Tax Strategy
Gather closing records, rental history and the proceeds trail so a reviewer can scope the U.S. return and related reporting together.
Tax Strategy
A stock sale abroad creates a capital gain, a currency conversion question, and usually an account-reporting question. Here is what each one needs before you file.
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These answers cover the factors that usually determine your filing path: income, foreign accounts, forms, deadlines, and scope.