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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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Self-Employment Abroad
When self-employed expats and investors may need estimated payments, and how FEIE, foreign tax credits, self-employment tax, and prior-year rules interact.
State Taxes
How remote work from another country can leave a former state-tax issue open, and which domicile, employer, and service-location records to keep.
Retirement Planning
A Roth conversion can interact with the FEIE, foreign tax credit, state domicile, treaty rules, and local taxation. Review these issues before converting an IRA abroad.
Self-Employment Abroad
How to organize foreign receipts, expenses, service location, currency, and entity records for Schedule C when the business owner lives abroad.
Self-Employment Abroad
How a totalization agreement actually assigns Social Security coverage for self-employed Americans abroad, the SSA's current country list, certificate evidence, and Schedule SE treatment.
Crypto Taxes
How Americans abroad should document staking rewards, fair-market value, basis, foreign exchanges, and the separate income and account reporting questions.
Streamlined Filing
Learn what a Streamlined Foreign Offshore non-willful statement should explain, which facts to document, and why the certification must be truthful and complete.
Streamlined Filing
Compare the Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures with delinquent FBAR submission procedures and learn why the right path depends on the entire compliance history.
Tax Treaties
How treaty residence tie-breakers work in principle, why the saving clause matters, and which residence records to preserve.
Consultation first · Written scope
These answers cover the factors that usually determine your filing path: income, foreign accounts, forms, deadlines, and scope.