What Do You Know About FATCA? Well, the IRS is up to their tricks again, making life a little more difficult on our expat citizens. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is designed to improve tax compliance regarding offshore bank accounts. An interesting statistic…of the 7.2 billion expats, the US Department of Treasury has only…
Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) An ITIN is an individual taxpayer identification number and it is a tax processing number supplied by the IRS. It will always be a nine-digit number and start with the number 9. The IRS issues ITINs to individuals who need to have a U.S. taxpayer identification number for tax return…
Estimated Tax Payments Estimated tax is a process to pay quarterly tax payments on income that is not subject to withholding. The income that is included is from self-employment, interest, dividends, alimony, rent, gains from the sale of assets, prizes and awards; you may also have to pay estimated tax if the amount of income…
The FBAR…No News is Good News! If you have more than $10,000 USD in foreign banks, you must file a Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR), Form number TD F 90-22.1, reporting the financial institution(s) name, address, account number and highest balance of the year. This informational tax form is filed with the United States Department…
AS A US CITIZEN earning more than $5,000, you should file an individual tax return reporting your worldwide income every single year. This applies to all U.S. Citizens living anywhere in the world…US or abroad. The United States is the only country that has a tax filing requirement based on citizenship. All the other countries…
United States Tax Treaties with Other Countries As an American Expat you will want to know about all the benefits for expat taxes while you are overseas. The United States has signed tax treaties with many different countries (actually over 60). Every country and treaty has different exemptions and tax savings features. Tax treaties help…
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