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Taxation Warnings for Expats! 

Where’s my income tax residence?

9 January 201929 January 2021 Mark Mason Faber Tax, Foreign Tax, Thun Financial

If you are a teacher in the USA, you know where you pay income tax because it is seamlessly deducted

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Gossip
Taxation 

Don’t believe the expat tax gossip

28 September 201829 January 2021 Mark Mason Foreign Tax, Foreign Tax Treaties

The too-good-to-be true tale of cheap iPhones is just like the too-good-to-be-true expat tax gossip. Don’t believe it!

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Missionaries Quitting Because of Money

5 June 201829 January 2021 Mark Mason Foreign Tax, Missionary Corner

We all know colleagues who have left their field of service. Sometimes it is to embrace a new opportunity in

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Investments Retirement Taxation Warnings for Expats! Winning Financial Freedom 

10 Investment Mistakes Made By Americans Abroad

24 May 201829 January 2021 David Kuenzi 403b (401k), Foreign Tax, IRA, Thun Financial, US tax

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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Death and Taxes
Earnings Savings Taxation 

Not expensing is expensive

10 May 201829 January 2021 Mark Mason Foreign Tax, US tax

I’m weird about money. I listen to financial podcasts in the gym, I read expat tax websites at midnight, and

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Earnings Investments Retirement Taxation Warnings for Expats! 

Top expat questions

20 April 201829 January 2021 Mark Mason 403b (401k), 529 College Account, College, Foreign Tax, IRA, US tax

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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Yes!
Savings Taxation Warnings for Expats! 

A 529 trick for expats

3 April 201829 January 2021 Michael A. Carlson 529 College Account, College, Foreign Tax, Michael A. Carlson

Any day that you find a way to legally protect investment dollars from the tax man is a good day!

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Questions
Earnings Taxation 

Do you understand your W-2?

21 March 201829 January 2021 Mark Mason Foreign Tax, US tax

Many of us receive a W-2 in February (although some nonprofit workers and missionaries do get a 1099 instead). If

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What gift tax?
Taxation 

Don’t worry about the Gift Tax?

13 March 201829 January 2021 Mark Mason Foreign Tax, Home-ownership, US tax

Remember that generous couple, Stan and Serena Donor, who came up to you and said, “We’d like to give you

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Death and Taxes
Taxation Warnings for Expats! 

Taxation: They All Love You and Your Money

Benjamin Franklin asserted: “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” What he didn’t

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