> 1) Get a US passport. Assuming you're a US citizen, this is not that hard. This will solve 99.8% of your US travel problems. People greatly overestimate how much passports and the IRS have to do with each other: in…
> Mine took five minutes to fill out. Four minutes to find the postal address for my bank branch, one to flip through my bank statements to find the peak balance and covert it to USD. Sadly, it's not that simple!…
I will do this when I get home from work. Thank you.
Good idea! I've always found my country's tax office to be very helpful when I've made mistakes or had questions with my taxes in the past. They might have some tips for the whole US situation.
I appreciate your comments.
> Over the threshold, you only pay taxes if you live in a country where taxes are less than the US, which is, to be honest, not that many countries. It's (sort of) that simple for earned income. In another country you…
It's all an insane mess. I do feel for US expats that have to go through this, when no other expats have to (the US and Eritrea are the only countries that practice citizenship based taxation [1]), but I'll bring to…
> 1) Get a US passport. Assuming you're a US citizen, this is not that hard. This will solve 99.8% of your US travel problems. People greatly overestimate how much passports and the IRS have to do with each other: in…
> Mine took five minutes to fill out. Four minutes to find the postal address for my bank branch, one to flip through my bank statements to find the peak balance and covert it to USD. Sadly, it's not that simple!…
I will do this when I get home from work. Thank you.
Good idea! I've always found my country's tax office to be very helpful when I've made mistakes or had questions with my taxes in the past. They might have some tips for the whole US situation.
I appreciate your comments.
> Over the threshold, you only pay taxes if you live in a country where taxes are less than the US, which is, to be honest, not that many countries. It's (sort of) that simple for earned income. In another country you…
It's all an insane mess. I do feel for US expats that have to go through this, when no other expats have to (the US and Eritrea are the only countries that practice citizenship based taxation [1]), but I'll bring to…