10/06/2025
All Americans have to file US taxes, reporting their global income, including Americans living abroad. Many Americans who live abroad (as well as many living in the US) own foreign real estate, and they often wonder whether it needs reporting on their American tax return, and if so how. All Americans who have certain foreign […]
10/06/2025
Over 9 million Americans live overseas, and every year the number is growing. Every year however, many Americans move back to the US, too. All American citizens are required to file US taxes, reporting their global income, including Americans living overseas. What happens when Americans move back to the US mid-year though? In this article we […]
10/06/2025
On 31st December 2020, the IRS quietly dropped a Bitcoin bombshell as it released a statement saying that it intended to add virtual currency accounts as a reportable account under FBAR rules. The statement read: “FinCEN intends to propose to amend the regulations implementing the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regarding reports of foreign financial accounts […]
10/06/2025
Note – a third stimulus check has now been announced too. On Sunday 27th December 2020, President Trump signed the COVID-Related Tax Relief Act of 2020 (COVIDTRA) into law. The Act passed through both houses early last week, however the president didn’t sign it sooner as he was unhappy with the amount of the second […]
10/06/2025
The Bright!Tax Awards Committee is pleased to announce that Olivia Cunningham is the latest recipient of the prestigious Global Scholar Award for Americans studying abroad. Olivia originally hails from Boston, however since undertaking a study abroad opportunity in her senior year of high school, she has been embracing life abroad. She completed her undergraduate degree […]
10/06/2025
This article was contributed by David Tompkins at Expat Financial. David is an expert in sourcing global health insurance plans for multinationals and individual expats around the globe. Most Americans realize the importance of buying medical insurance in the United States, but what about health insurance when you move abroad? It is unlikely that your […]
10/06/2025
It’s an unusual year in multiple ways, and this is also true when it comes to 2020 year-end tax planning. Both the Coronavirus pandemic and the presidential election will affect year-end tax planning for some expats this year. While the pandemic has affected the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion rules, tax changes next year due to […]
10/06/2025
It has been estimated that there are several thousand Americans living in Bangladesh. Living in Bangladesh is an wonderful experience for a number of reasons, including the friendly locals, the exotic culture, and the quality of life. As an American expatriate living in Bangladesh though, what exactly do you need to know regarding filing US expat (and Bangladeshi) taxes? […]
10/06/2025
Americans living abroad are required to file a US tax return every year, reporting all of their global income. No other developed nation requires expats to file in this way. American expats often have to file a foreign return too, and understand how the two different tax systems converge. Furthermore, expats are subject to additional […]
10/06/2025
The US tax system is based on citizenship, which means that American citizens living abroad are required to file US taxes every year, reporting their worldwide income. As American expats often have to file foreign taxes too (depending on the rules in the country where they live), they get longer to file, with expats’ tax […]