03/05/2020
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 […]
02/17/2020
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 […]
02/03/2020
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 […]
01/24/2020
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 […]
07/04/2019
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 […]
03/11/2019
Breaking News: Expat small business owners were celebrating today as the Treasury announced relief for individual American owners of foreign registered corporations from the new GILTI tax introduced in the Trump Tax reform. Deep within 177 pages of Proposed Regulations released by the Treasury on March 4th 2019 dealing with the application of changes made under […]
02/18/2019
All Americans, including expats, have been required to file US taxes, reporting their worldwide income, since the nineteenth century. It’s only over the last few years though that, due to foreign banks and governments now sharing expats’ financial data with the IRS the federal government has been able to enforce the requirement for expats to […]
02/14/2019
Living abroad is the opportunity of a lifetime, however it can be slightly marred for American expats because they are required to continue filing a US tax return from overseas, reporting their worldwide income. Expats filing in 2019 however will find that form 1040 is new, for the first time in decades. Will new […]
01/17/2019
All American citizens (and green card holders), including expats, are required to file US taxes every year, reporting their worldwide income. To ensure that expats don’t pay taxes twice on the same income, the IRS has provided several exemptions that expats can claim when they file. Which exemption is most beneficial to claim depends on […]
10/25/2018
Expats are the new pioneers, forging out into the unknown on a journey of discovery and unforeseen opportunity. The desire for and ability to not just survive but thrive in new environments makes expats well suited to being entrepreneurs, explaining why millions of American expats choose to start their own business. Americans are more […]