Falco & Kree
A tax blog, told through story.
The characters are fiction. The tax situations are not.
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Avoiding Double Tax
I'm Self-Employed and Moving Abroad. Does the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion Cover Me?
Meet Makeda: Ethiopian-American food creator, nearly a million followers, and about to discover the number nobody put in her spreadsheet.
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Property & Investments
Mom Left Me an Apartment Overseas. I've Been Collecting Rent. Do I Have to Tell the IRS?
An apartment inherited overseas, years of quiet rent building up in a foreign account, and a question nobody thought to ask until it finally came up.
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What Can I Deduct?
Can I Write Off My Uber Rides for Work? What About My Manicure?
Faye is an expat who works in New York every year, and she wants to know if her Ubers and her manicure are deductible.
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Moving Abroad & State Taxes
I Left a Good Job and Moved to Thailand. The IRS Came With Me.
Meet Kree: digital nomad, Muay Thai fighter, and the person this blog is built around.
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Foreign Bank Accounts
I Forgot an Old Foreign Account. Do I Need to File an FBAR?
Pat is an engineer who moved from Dublin to Singapore and thought he had closed his old Irish bank account.
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Avoiding Double Tax
I Made My Money and Chose the World. Now My Tax Return Has Four Countries in It.
Meet Falco: Kree's oldest friend, a self-made American living everywhere, and the reason PFIC reporting exists in your nightmares.
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Avoiding Double Tax
I Live in Thailand and Work Remotely for a U.S. Company. Here Is What My Tax Return Actually Looks Like.
Kree has a W-2, a Muay Thai visa, and an employer who does not know she left.
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Avoiding Double Tax
The IRS Rejected My Wife's Foreign Income Exclusion. Can We Just Switch to the Credit This Year?
Meet Van: brilliant engineer, methodical about everything, about to make a very expensive mistake.
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