US Taxes For Americans Abroad

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booboo book rating: ★★★★☆

Mostly an informational manual on the different forms and requirements. It would be good reading for the employees in the author’s firm, but I didn’t get much useful info out of it. You’ll be able to skip some information that is not relevant to you. For me, I skipped over all the renouncing citizenship information. This makes the book a few quick read.

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There is an interesting real estate tax loophole briefly discussed on page 124 having to do with selling your property to an S Corp that you own in order to exclude $250k via the Home Sale Exclusion. Something to look into further.

A couple other things that I found interesting and needing further research:

• certain physical assets such as gold bars, antiques, jewelry do not need to be reported on form 8938
• the following foreign assets do not need to be reported
  • physical gold and precious metals
  • safety deposit boxes at foreign banks and vaults
  • art
  • cars
  • antiques
  • jewelry
  • other collectibles
  • real estate held in your name

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