US Expat Entrepreneurs

Americans living abroad are required to file US taxes, reporting their worldwide income. The US is one of only two countries (the other being Eritrea in Africa) that tax expats on their global income, as well as residents. American expats also have to report any foreign business interests they have, and sometimes their foreign financial […]

The IRS has released the final GILTI rules, two and a half years after the new tax on Americans with a foreign registered business was introduced as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Initially intended to target large multinationals like Apple that had established offshore subsidiaries so as to pay less US […]

Leading US tax attorney Monte Silver has been locked in a legal action with the IRS for over a year, in defense of American expats with a small business registered abroad. All American citizens, including expats, are required to file US taxes every year, reporting their worldwide income and their offshore financial accounts and businesses. […]

American expats are required to file a US tax return, reporting their global income, even if they file foreign taxes too. When they file, expats can claim either the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, or the Foreign Tax Credit, to reduce their US income tax bill, most often to zero. The Foreign Tax Credit lets expats […]

One of President Trump’s central election pledges in 2016 was to cut taxes. The result was the signing into law in 2017 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, more often referred to as the Trump Tax Reform. The Act didn’t just cut income and corporate taxes though, it also created some new ones, notably […]

All Americans are required to file US taxes reporting their worldwide income, even if they live abroad. The IRS has provided a number of exemptions, notably the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and the Foreign Tax Credit, that US expats can claim when they file that for most people mean they won’t end up paying any […]

Good news for American expat small business owners: US tax attorney Monte Silver has won a significant milestone in his lawsuit against the IRS over it’s application of the new Transition Tax (part of the recent Tax Reform, and often referred to as the Apple Tax) to small businesses. Background – Tax Reform and Unintended […]

Last month, the IRS released final proposed guidelines relating to the taxation of GILTI (Global Intangible Low Tax Income) on certain foreign registered businesses. The 318 pages of IRS guidelines contain some welcome news for many US expat business owners. Background Before the Trump Tax Reform (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), Americans […]