Are you an US Citizen and Living Abroad? Must Read this

If you are an US citizen living in any other country or if you are a green card holder living abroad, then you are an expat and may be worrying about the expat tax in the US. But, the legal definition of expat, under the aegis of the internal revenue system (IRS), is a former citizen or permanent resident of the US who has since renounced their US citizenship. People who fall into this conception of expatriate, then the following will only be relevant to them if they have forfeited US citizenship after the latest form 1040 file date. This is because they will owe back taxes from this time they were living in the US. Also, this distinction between the  colloquial as well as legal understandings of US expat are vital to know as colloquial expats foreign nationals in the nation in which they are living are still beholden to the exigencies of the internal revenue system.

Let's know about the instances of obligation

Maybe you have shifted or moved for retirement or work or with your partner and though you no longer receive tax funded US amenities, people with US citizenship will nonetheless have to pay taxes on any number of assets and income. Even if you shifted for your partner's work, you can be beholden to expat tax. But, if you yourself do earn a salary abroad and are taxed within the purview of that state's laws, you have to file taxes in the US on your earnings as long as it is excluded, then you must apply for a foreign tax credit. Also, the amount of deductions to the overall taxes depends on the ratio of excluded income to total earnings. In some cases, the foreign tax credit can be used to deduct as much as $1400 while earning more than $110000 abroad.

Let's know about otherwise than obliged

There is another way of reducing the US expat tax return on your overseas income. As with all Business involving the maintenance as well as management of taxable assets and capital, the process can be eased with the help of a professional tax expert. Also, there are two methods of attenuating the strain the internal revenue system will put on your overseas income.

1) FEIE (The foreign earned income exclusion)- This exclusion is $102100 and concretely means that if you earn more than this amount, then you can deduct this amount from your US taxable income and incur expat taxes in the US only on the remainder. Because of the stacking ruke, the remaining taxable income will still be taxed at the unreduced and original amount from which you deducted the $102200. 

2) When considering your US expat taxes living abroad, you must pay attention to a of both active as well as passive modes of income from capital gains to alimony. Do not fret much about the April 15 deadline, you get the automatic extension to June 15.