Straight answers about U.S. taxes from abroad.
Which IRS option fits you, what each form does, and exactly which years you'd file. Free, reviewed by a licensed CPA, and no email required to read it.
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Do I qualify for Streamlined?
Six questions, and you'll see which IRS catch-up option may fit.
Do I need to file?
2025 filing thresholds by status, plus the FBAR rule.
FBAR threshold checker
Add up your accounts in any currency.
Years-to-file calculator
The exact 3 returns and 6 FBARs, for any filing date.
330-day counter
Find your best 12 months for the foreign earned income exclusion.
SDOP penalty calculator
The 5% Streamlined Domestic penalty, from your year-end balances.
Form 8938 checker
The FATCA limits for where you live and how you file.
Exit tax check
The three covered expatriate tests, before you renounce.
IRS catch-up programs, explained honestly
What each one really is, who qualifies, and what it costs.
IRS tax amnesty for expats
Every option, compared side by side.
Read more →Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures
Foreign or Domestic, step by step.
Read more →Streamlined Foreign Offshore
Living abroad: 3 returns, 6 FBARs, no penalty.
Read more →Streamlined Domestic Offshore
Living in the U.S.: amended returns and a 5% penalty.
Read more →Delinquent FBAR procedures
Only FBARs missing? The simplest fix.
Read more →Relief for former citizens
Already renounced? Past tax may be forgiven.
Read more →IRS amnesty in 2026
What's open this year, and what isn't.
Read more →Forms, explained
What each form is for, who files it, and the mistakes to avoid.
Foreign accounts over $10,000 combined, filed online every year.
Read the FBAR guide → FBARAmended"I left something off my FBAR."How to correct an FBAR you already filed, step by step.
Read the amended FBAR guide → 14653Streamlined"I live abroad, and it was an honest mistake."Your certification for the Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures.
Read the 14653 guide → 14654Streamlined"I'm in the U.S., and here's my 5%."The domestic certification and penalty calculation.
Read the 14654 guide → 8938FATCA"And the rest of your foreign assets?"Foreign asset reporting with your return, at higher thresholds.
Read the 8938 guide → 2555Exclusion"This salary doesn't count."The foreign earned income exclusion: $130,000 for 2025.
Read the 2555 guide → 1116Credit"You already paid tax on this."The foreign tax credit, dollar for dollar.
Read the 1116 guide → 8621PFIC"Your foreign funds, one by one."Foreign mutual funds and ETFs, and the U.S. tax rules that come with them.
Read the 8621 guide → 5471Company"You own part of a foreign company."Owners and officers of foreign companies, with a $10,000 penalty if missed.
Read the 5471 guide → 3520Gifts & trusts"Family abroad sent you money."Large foreign gifts and inheritances, and foreign trusts.
Read the 3520 guide → 8854Exit tax"I'm giving up my citizenship."The expatriation statement, the covered expatriate tests and the exit tax.
Read the 8854 guide →Guides to catching up
The questions we answer most, in plain English.
Never filed as an American abroad?
What the rules say and how to catch up, step by step.
Read the guide →Why not just start filing now?
The quiet disclosure problem, and the safer route.
Read the guide →Quiet disclosure vs. Streamlined
Penalties, risk and years side by side, and which to choose.
Read the comparison →Willful vs. non-willful
The line that decides your options, with examples.
Read the guide →After you file Streamlined
What happens next, and what doesn't.
Read the guide →FBAR penalties explained
The real numbers, without the scare tactics.
Read the guide →The late FBAR "cover letter"
What to write, with a template you can adapt.
Read the guide →A Social Security number from abroad
Where to apply, what to bring, how long it takes.
Read the guide →Your country's U.S. tax traps
46 countries, from Canada and the UK to Japan and South Africa.
Choose a country →Tax scam alerts
Fake IRS calls, "amnesty deadlines" and how to check.
Read the alerts →Life abroad, year by year
Moving, family, money and the rules that follow you.
Moving abroad?
A U.S. tax checklist for before you go.
Read the guide →Moving back to the U.S.
Your return year, and what you bring with you.
Read the guide →Digital nomads
The 330 days, your tax home and your state.
Read the guide →State taxes after you leave
How to really stop being a resident.
Read the guide →Green card holders abroad
Still taxed like a citizen, until it ends.
Read the guide →Married to a non-American
Separately, head of household or jointly.
Read the guide →An ITIN for your spouse
Form W-7 from abroad, step by step.
Read the guide →The child tax credit abroad
Up to $1,700 per child, even owing nothing.
Read the guide →U.S. Social Security abroad
Who taxes it, country by country.
Read the guide →Self-employment tax abroad
Why it applies, and the agreements that stop it.
Read the guide →U.S. accounts from abroad
Banks, brokers and IRAs.
Read the guide →Property abroad
Rent, sell or keep, worked out in dollars.
Read the guide →Crypto abroad
What the IRS still wants to know.
Read the guide →The rules, in one place
Deadlines, treaties and the words you'll keep seeing.
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