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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
Complete guide to the FEIE Physical Presence Test. Learn how to count days, track travel, choose your 12-month period, and avoid disqualifying mistakes that cost you the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.
Tax Strategy
UK Self-Invested Personal Pensions can create U.S. treaty, trust, retirement, and PFIC questions. Learn what to document and how to review a SIPP without assuming that one filing position applies to every plan.
Tax Strategy
Malta, Cyprus, and others let you establish tax residency with minimal physical presence. But a residency certificate alone does not get you the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. Here is what actually works.
Tax Strategy
The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion caps at $130K. If you earn more, here's how relocating to Ecuador affects your US tax bill — and which visa gets you there.
Tax Strategy
Most LLC owners who move abroad have never heard of the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. How it works, what it saves, and why self-employment tax is the catch.
Tax Strategy
Living abroad and paying US tax without the FEIE? You may be able to amend prior returns. Learn the Form 1040-X deadline, Form 2555 workflow, documentation, and limits on any refund claim.
Compliance
US expats in Ecuador with CDs at JEP, CPN, or Banco del Pacífico must file FBARs and report interest income. Property sales trigger capital gains too.
Tax Strategy
Standard tax advice says elect S-Corp to save on self-employment tax. But for expats claiming the FEIE, the math flips. Here's the real comparison with numbers.
Tax Strategy
Tax guide for Americans in Mexico: FEIE on W-2 and freelance income, US rental property rules, state tax traps, and real client savings.
Consultation first · Written scope
These answers cover the factors that usually determine your filing path: income, foreign accounts, forms, deadlines, and scope.