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Guarding Against Tax Refund Fraud
This year’s tax filing deadline is fast approaching. If you have filed an extension (or merely procrastinated), it may be a while yet before the IRS has your tax return in hand. But consider this disturbing scenario: what if you were to file only to be notified that the IRS already had a return on file for you? Identity theft is o...
American by Accident and What the IRS May Have to Say About It
Default Citizenship by Birth Thanks to the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, any person born in the United States is automatically a US Citizen ...
Filing Back Taxes: Should I Agree with the IRS’s Request for Additional Time to Process My Returns?
If you had filed back taxes for multiple years...
Taxes for Graduate Students. Questions and Answers
The IRS understands that seeking higher education equates to more expenses and less time to devote to earning an income. We’...
US Expat IRS Estimated Taxes and Payments Explained
As a US Citizen or Green Card Holder working overseas and you have income from which US taxes are not withheld, it may be necessary for you to pay estimated taxes throughout the year. Whether or not you’re required to make...
Capital Gains & Expats
As a United States Citizen or Green Card Holder working overseas you may or may not be aware of your requirement to file a US expat tax return annually. If you are just learning of your requirement to file, you may also be interested in learning that all of your worldwide income must be reported. Worldwide income does not simply refer t...