Why Americans Should Never Own Shares in a Non-US Mutual Fund (PFIC)
If you are investing your savings through a non-US financial institution, you need to learn what a Passive Foreign Investment Company is very quickly. Why?
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Warnings for Expats!
How to get around 2-step verification
I fired up the computer this morning to login to my brokerage account only to discover that my username and
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How to open a US brokerage account while abroad
They chuckled and hung up the phone, didn’t they? Yep, you called XYZ Brokerage of St. Louis, Missouri to open
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10 Investment Mistakes Made By Americans Abroad
10, 12 or 200 mistakes. Each one weighs heavily on the limited-income, US expatriate. So, while a few of these
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No expats allowed!
My US brokerage account was frozen as a result of one stray comment. As I was chatting online about a
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Favorite Resources
This is a collection of FREEBIES, low-cost and money-saving tools of particular interest to missionaries and limited-income workers. Whenever available,
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Where to give to charity?
One of our main goals in Winning our Financial Freedom is to be able to give with Reckless Generosity. Whether
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Top expat questions
A well-meaning friend recently told me that US expat missionaries and nonprofit workers have basically the same personal finance issues
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Is money evil?
Some of my missionary readers are thinking this is the only good title on this whole blogsite. Maybe you’re thinking:
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Tax Day! Free FBAR filing
My computer greeted me with “Tax Day!” as I signed in this morning. While we expats generally get an automatic
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