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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US tax
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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Not expensing is expensive
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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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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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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Don’t Invest in an IRA!
If you search online for the “best retirement account,” most websites will hands-down recommend the Roth IRA for most people
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Do you understand your W-2?
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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Don’t worry about the Gift 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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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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