Andrew Coleman
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Foreign Countries Tax Filing Deadlines
US Citizens and Green Card Holders’ U.S. income tax filing deadline is April 15 (for the year that ended on preceding December 31). For US Expats living and working overseas, the standard US expat tax filing deadline is June 15 (with possibility of a 6 month extension to October 15). American Expats have anot...
Preserving Tax and Financial Records: How Long Is Long Enough?
Now that tax season is behind us for another year—unless, of course, you filed an extension—let’s take a moment to consider what might happen should this or some other dead-and-buried tax return one day arise from the grave to haunt you once more—most likely in the form of an audit. The foundation of audit defense is good ...
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’...