<h1 class="entry-title">Tag: Taxes</h1>
03
Dec
#1 Choice For Going Offshore In 2019 We Americans tend to dismiss Europe for overseas lifestyle and investment options, thinking this part of the world is too complicated or too expensive. The truth is that some European countries can be cheaper than destinations that might much sooner come to mind as top live and invest [...]
12
Nov
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
Why I'm Sometimes OK Paying More Taxes A few years ago, after reading an article I'd written detailing an American's ongoing obligation to file a tax return with the IRS each year even after he's moved overseas, a reader wrote in to correct me. The reader proudly pointed out that an American does not need [...]
15
Oct
What The New Tax Laws Mean For Us Americans Offshore I'd say the United States now has more tax filing deadlines than national holidays. Today, Oct. 15, is another one. Everyone knows April 15. That's the deadline for filing your personal tax return each year. This year this deadline actually fell on April 17, thanks [...]
06
Sep
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
So You Wanna Live In Europe? People often take Europe off the list of possibilities for where to move or invest overseas because they assume the residency options are too limited or the tax implications too onerous. The truth is that residency can be easier to obtain in some European countries than it is in [...]
22
Mar
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
Trump threw us Americans with businesses overseas a curveball in December. His tax changes eliminated the deferred-tax status for U.S.-controlled foreign corporations. That opportunity to defer U.S. tax made it possible for Americans with small businesses overseas to build their businesses faster. Now what? All my global tax-expert friends and colleagues have spent the past […]
10
Apr
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
Answers To Two Important U.S. Tax Questions It’s tax time again for us Americans. That is, this Tuesday, April 18 (April 15 is a Saturday and April 17 is a holiday in D.C.), is the reporting deadline for those of us who haven’t filed for an extension until October. How many tax dates do we [...]
13
Mar
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
Zen And The Art Of Taxes For The American Abroad I’ve been preparing U.S. taxes since I was in high school. My first office job as a teenager was working for a small CPA firm in Phoenix, Arizona. That group trained me, over the three years I worked for them, in the basics of tax [...]
08
Sep
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
The Oct. 15 deadline looms. That is, any American who filed for an extension is now buckling down to prepare his 2015 tax return… myself included. One related topic that has been generating lots of questions for me lately is foreign disregarded entities. Even professional tax-filers seem to be confused as to how these work. […]
26
Mar
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
To qualify for the FEIE using the 330 Day Test, you must be in another country (just being outside the United States doesn’t work if you’re in international waters, for example) for 330 days out of any 365-day period. It does not matter if the 330 days are over two calendar years (between Nov. 1, […]
11
Dec
Posted by Lief Simon
In Taxes
A handful of the world’s no-tax countries are in the Middle East, including Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, and Oman. These are not high on my Places I’d Like To Live list. On the other hand, spending your working years in one of these zero-tax jurisdictions would allow you to grow your retirement nest egg faster.
