FileAbroad

Digital nomad tax consultation

Working From Country to Country? Map Your Tax Home, Workdays, Income, and Filing Footprint Before You File.

Digital nomad is a lifestyle label, not a tax status or automatic FEIE result. Your U.S. filing position depends on citizenship or residency, full travel calendar, tax home and abode, where services were performed, employee or business structure, foreign taxes, social coverage, state ties, accounts, assets, and prior filings. In a paid consultation, I map that moving fact pattern and define the U.S. work and foreign referrals that should come next.

Start My Digital Nomad Intake

The preliminary intake is free. Do not send sensitive tax documents through the public intake form.

30 minutes · Directly with Chip

The consultation

What we'll review

The consultation focuses on the facts that determine what needs further attention.

Travel, homes, and tax-home facts

The exact border calendar, full foreign-country days, U.S. abode and dwelling ties, regular work bases, visas, claimed residences, and evidence relevant to section 911 and state questions.

Work, payer, and income source

Employee, contractor, owner, and entity periods; legal employers or clients; service locations; pay components; expenses; and the records needed to source and report income.

Country tax and filing footprint

Domestic residence/source claims, local returns, income tax versus social charges, assessments/refunds, currencies, and the questions that must be confirmed by country advisers.

FEIE, FTC, social tax, and state

Qualifying-period and election facts, creditability/source/timing, self-employment or payroll coverage, totalization evidence, estimates, domicile, and state-source work.

Accounts, structures, and prior filings

Foreign accounts/assets, pensions, funds, crypto, entities, prior U.S./state/international forms, inconsistencies, catch-up questions, and the correct next pathway or referral.

After the call

What you leave with

By the end of the consultation, you should understand the issues that need attention and the next practical step.

  • A country-by-country travel, home, work, payer, and filing timeline for the years under review.
  • The tax-home, FEIE/FTC, income-source, social-tax, state, account/asset, entity, and prior-year questions that require further work.
  • A focused records request for travel, residence, work, pay, expenses, foreign tax/social contributions, accounts, entities, and prior filings, with secure-upload instructions after intake.
  • Whether FileAbroad can accept the U.S. preparation stage, which narrower consultation path fits, and which country, employer, immigration, legal, or state issues need referral.

You are not required to hire FileAbroad for preparation after the consultation.

Scope

What the consultation does not include

The consultation is a review and scoping session. It does not include preparation or filing of a tax return, FBAR, information return, amended return, or Streamlined submission.

It also does not create an open-ended support engagement. Additional research, document review, preparation, or follow-up work is included only when it is specifically agreed or purchased.

FileAbroad does not provide legal advice or tax litigation services.

The process

How it works

  1. 1

    Start the intake.

    Tell me the broad facts of your situation without uploading sensitive tax documents through the public form.

  2. 2

    I review the inquiry.

    I personally review the intake to determine whether a FileAbroad consultation appears appropriate.

  3. 3

    Book the consultation.

    If the situation fits, you'll receive the next step for scheduling the 30-minute paid consultation.

  4. 4

    We review the situation together.

    We use the call to identify the relevant filing questions, missing information, and practical next step.

  5. 5

    Preparation is separate.

    If FileAbroad can accept preparation work, the scope and price are confirmed before that work begins.

Before you book

Questions we'll use to map your nomad years

Which tax years need review, what was your U.S. citizenship or residency status, and what were every country arrival, departure, full day, U.S. day, and international travel segment during the relevant periods?
Where did you keep homes or regular places of business, where were your spouse or family and personal ties, what U.S. dwelling or state connections remained, and which visas or tax-residence statuses did you claim?
Were you an employee, contractor, sole proprietor, partner, or company owner in each period, who were the legal employers or clients, and where did you physically perform the services that produced each payment?
What wages, business receipts, bonuses, equity, benefits, expenses, foreign income taxes, social contributions, local returns, assessments, refunds, and currency records exist for each country and year?
What foreign accounts, payment platforms, investments, pensions, entities, or digital assets did you hold, which U.S./state/foreign returns and international forms were filed, and are any years, elections, notices, or deadlines unresolved?
What should I send before the consultation?

Start with the public intake and describe the broad facts of your situation. Do not send Social Security numbers, tax returns, bank statements, or other sensitive tax documents through the public intake form. If documents are needed later, I will provide secure upload instructions.

Will you tell me exactly what I need to file?

The consultation is designed to identify the filing issues that need attention and the information required to determine the next step. Some questions can be resolved during the call; others may require records, additional research, or preparation work outside the consultation.

Do I have to hire FileAbroad afterward?

No. The consultation stands on its own. If FileAbroad can accept preparation work, you can decide whether to proceed after the scope and price are confirmed.

Can you review documents during the consultation?

Limited document review may be possible when agreed in advance, but the consultation is not a substitute for a full document review or tax-preparation engagement.

Related paths

If this is not the right starting point

Digital nomad tax guide

Review the travel, tax-home, work-source, state, account, and local-referral framework.

FEIE consultation

Use the focused eligibility path after the travel, tax-home, and earned-income facts are organized.

Foreign tax credit consultation

Use the credit path when foreign income tax, source, category, timing, and limits are the central issue.

Remote employee abroad consultation

Use the U.S.-payroll employee path when movement is secondary to the work arrangement.

Foreign employer consultation

Use the foreign-payroll path for a non-U.S. legal employer and local wage/benefit records.

Self-employed abroad consultation

Use the business-income path when Schedule C, expenses, entities, and social tax are central.

State tax termination consultation

Use the state-specific path for former-state domicile, statutory residence, withholding, or source income.

Foreign accounts consultation

Use the account-classification path when banks, payment platforms, authority, ownership, and values need mapping.

Start here

Tell me what's going on.

You don't need to know which form, filing procedure, or service you need. Start with the broad facts, and I'll review whether a FileAbroad consultation is the appropriate next step.

Start My Digital Nomad Intake

Prefer email? info@fileabroad.com

Do not send sensitive tax documents through the public intake form or ordinary email.