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- Filing a US return from the UK: what actually changes
- Streamlined filing: getting current, penalty-free on the Foreign Offshore route
- Your ISA is tax-free in the UK. The IRS disagrees.
- UK pensions under US rules: where the treaty helps and where it does not
- Selling a UK home when the IRS is also watching
- Taking money from an American plan while living in Britain
- You were born in America and left as a baby. The IRS still counts you.
- Fixing a filed US return without making the position worse
- How to avoid double taxation between the US and UK, mechanism by mechanism
- Bona fide residence or 330 days: which test should you use?
- Paid in March for work done last year, in a country you have left
- Born in America, raised in Britain: what your US return actually looks like
- Buying your first UK home with an American passport
- You moved to London. California may not have noticed.
- File anyway. The penalty for not filing is the bigger one.
- Capital losses do not cross the Atlantic
- Charitable giving when you file in both countries
- Claiming child benefit when one of you earns too much
- The child tax credit abroad: the refund most expat families miss
- The Child Trust Fund your American child cannot ignore
- Tidying up pensions on two sides of an ocean
- Your coins have an address for tax, and it is wherever you live
- The paper trail that proves you really left your state
- Delinquent FBAR procedures: three ways back to compliance
- Disclosing US income to HMRC: the British half of catching up
- Separating across two tax systems, and the rules that differ
- The dual-status year: half resident, half not, one return
- Sharesave, SIPs and EMI options when you also answer to the IRS
- Quarterly payments to the IRS when you live on another continent
- Why your British bank suddenly wants to know if you are American
- FBAR filing cost: what's free, what isn't, and what drives fees
- The foreign housing exclusion: two numbers people keep confusing
- Form 2555 or Form 1116: choosing your relief from the UK
- FIRPTA withholding: 15% of the price, not the profit
- Filing your first American returns from Britain: what catch-up really involves
- Your sterling mortgage and the tax gain you never saw
- The foreign tax credit carryover nobody tracks
- Form 3520: the report that follows a gift from home
- British trustees will not file an American form. You can file it for them.
- The form your British company hands the IRS
- The foreign-owned US LLC that files a return and owes no tax
- Form 709: when giving money away becomes a filing
- Form 8621: who files it, when, and for how many funds
- Treaty-based return position: when Form 8833 is required
- Form 8858: the return a UK sole trade quietly creates
- Form 8865: the filing a UK partnership brings with it
- Form 8938 vs the FBAR: two reports, one set of accounts
- Gift Aid after leaving the UK: the declaration that keeps running
- The rule that taxes your company's profit before you take it
- Going freelance in Britain when the IRS still counts you in
- The certificate of residence: proof the treaty asks for
- The brown envelope: what an HMRC enquiry actually involves
- HMRC will ask what you can afford. Have the figure ready.
- How HMRC knows about your income - and what to do about it
- Form 3520, a stepped basis, and a house measured in the wrong currency
- IR35 for the American contractor: who decides, and what it costs
- The plan is the easy part. Paying it from a British bank is not.
- How far back the IRS can reach, and when the clock never starts
- Is my fund a PFIC? How to check before you buy
- Does your British spouse need a US tax number?
- Junior ISAs when one parent is American
- Your tenant may have to deduct tax from the rent before you see it
- One form tells HMRC you have gone. The rest of the year is the work.
- A 1% excise tax, a quarterly return, and a trust nobody meant to create
- The Lifetime ISA bonus looks like free money. The IRS has questions.
- Married to a Briton: the filing status choice that follows
- You use the NHS. The US still asks for Medicare tax.
- The relief every other American abroad relies on is the one you cannot use
- The repatriation year has more filings than the year you emigrated
- National Insurance for Americans working in Britain
- Net investment income tax: the threshold that halves when you file separately
- New tax year: what resets on 6 April, and what to settle first
- Leaving New York for London without leaving New York's tax net
- Four income streams, four answers, and only one of them is expensive
- The October 15 deadline: your last stop for this year's US filings
- Your P60 and your US return: reading one for the other
- When a tax debt reaches your passport
- Your employer's health cover is taxed here and often ignored there
- Two legal systems, one estate, and a valuation everyone needs
- The overseas pension transfer that rarely suits an American
- The quiet fix that makes an IRS problem louder
- The penalty defense that works, and the one that never does
- Redundancy pay: tax-free in Britain, taxable in America
- Register for Self Assessment by 5 October - the American's guide
- Relocation packages and the tax nobody put in the budget
- Your laptop moved to London. Your employer stayed in America.
- RSUs across the Atlantic: when each country takes its share
- Moving to Britain for the last chapter, and what it costs
- The Roth IRA that keeps working after you move to Britain
- The treaty gives royalties to one country. Your passport gives them back.
- Paying yourself from a company two countries can see
- Salary sacrifice works here. Your US return asks a different question.
- One business, two sets of accounts, and how to make them agree
- Britain exempts the whole award. America asks what you spent it on.
- Paying school fees across an ocean, and who gets taxed on it
- Self-employment tax: the 15.3% the exclusion does not touch
- Three dates decide the tax: leaving, arriving, and the contract
- Getting a Social Security number as an adult who has never lived in America
- Britain splits your year. The IRS does not, and that is the whole problem.
- Stamp duty on a British home, and what it does on your US return
- Which states keep a claim on people who have moved abroad
- Do you still need a state return when all your income is British?
- Maternity pay in Britain, a filing question in America
- Streamlined filing cost: the three numbers that decide it
- The year a written-off loan became a tax question again
- Sending money home to your parents, and what the IRS makes of it
- Three years, six years, or forever, depending on what you did
- Four ways to be paid for the same code, and four different tax outcomes
- Moving your own money is not income. Everything around it might be.
- The treaty article that exempts visiting academics, and the citizens it leaves out
- Building a financial plan when two tax systems both claim you
- Opening an account here is easy. Keeping the paperwork straight is the work.
- The benefit Britain does not tax can still land on your US return
- Capital gains tax on shares when you also file in America
- UK dividends on a US return: the allowance that does not travel
- Inheritance tax when one of you is American
- Setting up a British company when the IRS owns a share of your thinking
- Payments on account: the UK tax bill that arrives twice
- The reduction that used to cut your US Social Security has gone
- UK savings interest, the allowances, and your US return
- A British pension, an American return, and one treaty paragraph
- The statutory residence test in the year you move
- The UK tax year: why 6 April runs your British filings
- Your first UK tax year: what the year of arrival actually taxes
- The trustees called it a loan. The IRS calls it a distribution.
- Your American investments become a British tax question the day you land
- Your baby may be American. Here is what that actually means.
- Where Americans in Britain can actually hold investments
- Your American employer has no UK payroll. Here is who pays the tax.
- The $60,000 line: US estate tax for people who never lived there
- The exit tax: what renouncing actually triggers
- US LLC profits and a UK resident member: the mismatch nobody mentions
- Incorporate, or stay as you are? The American version of the question
- Keeping your American house after you move to Britain
- Studying in Britain does not pause your American filing
- Do you need to file a US tax return from abroad?
- UK rental income and the depreciation trap on your US return
- The dividend withholding rate under the US-UK treaty, explained
- Six dates, two countries, and none of them line up
- The totalization agreement: which country gets your social security
- Treaty Article 17: how the US and UK tax your pension income
- The British tax that has nothing to do with your profits
- Three conditions decide whether a short teaching trip is taxed here
- The yearly average is a convenience, not the rule
- Year-end planning when your household has two year ends