American Citizens Currently Living Abroad

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Lon

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I am curious how many Forum Members we have that are American citizens living abroad.

I was one for 24 years (New Zealand)
 

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I am required to. No tax of course, but I have to file. Weird thing is I have to put my UK pension on my US form, but if my US SS was a huge amount I'd have to pay a tax on it to the UK.

My husband's income doesn't count with the US IRS.
 
Ameriscot said:
I am required to. No tax of course, but I have to file. Weird thing is I have to put my UK pension on my US form, but if my US SS was a huge amount I'd have to pay a tax on it to the UK.

My husband's income doesn't count with the US IRS.
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I understand, but if you are receiving U.S. Social Security they have been taking out taxes from each payment and you may be able to recoup some of that depending on if you have any other U.S. taxable income ie Interest/dividends etc.
 
Or, S/S benefits might be so pitifully small, such as mine, that if tax were withheld from them, I'd have nothing left! imp
 
imp said:
Or, S/S benefits might be so pitifully small, such as mine, that if tax were withheld from them, I'd have nothing left! imp
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Mine is not huge. I only worked in the US for 17 years and never had a big salary. Besides, in the UK you don't file a tax return unless you make over something like £45,000 so I never had to and only my income counts in regard to tax. But if I'd made the equivalent of $95K in the UK I would be double taxed by the US. The only country that does that. And this forces high earning dual nationality expats to give up their US citizenship. Ridiculous.
 
Lon said:
I understand, but if you are receiving U.S. Social Security they have been taking out taxes from each payment and you may be able to recoup some of that depending on if you have any other U.S. taxable income ie Interest/dividends etc.
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No taxes are withheld when the SS recipient lives abroad no matter what the amount. If I had to pay tax on US SS it would go to the UK government. If my UK pension was large enough to pay tax on it would be paid to the US. The UK and US have pension agreements with each other.

The interest and dividends I receive from a US account are not large enough to pay tax on but I do submit the forms.
 
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