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How to Navigate Common IRS Form 8938 Tax Audit Triggers Expanding upon our recent article involving FBAR compliance and Form […]
How to Avoid Frequent IRS Form 8938 Mistakes  IRS Form 8938 is one of the more common types of international […]
An Update for Expats with Form 3520 Penalty Concerns At the close of 2024, the then-acting IRS Commissioner of the […]
Are Your Foreign Assets Putting You at Risk for an IRS Audit? While it is perfectly legal to move your […]
  2025 Expat FBAR Guide: New Filing and Reporting Examples While there are several international information reporting forms that U.S. […]
  What is IRS Form 8938, Who Must File & Report Foreign Assets While there are many different types of international […]
5 Common Expat FBAR Filing Errors  The FBAR (FinCEN Form 114) is an international information reporting form that some US […]
  Why Missed Foreign Information Returns Put Expats at Risk With the recent 2025 uptick of taxpayers receiving penalty notices […]
When Do Expats Have to Disclose Foreign Assets? Each year, U.S. Taxpayers across the globe who have ownership of foreign […]
Form 3520 Penalty Explained In recent years, the Internal Revenue Service has significantly increased enforcement of the Form 3520 filing […]
Key FBAR Non-Compliance Issues that Trigger IRS Problems With the 2025 FBAR due date creeping up, U.S. Taxpayers with FBAR […]
Do Golden Visa Holders Pay U.S. Taxes and Report Assets? When Americans purchase a golden visa, they are often led […]
  How Going Overseas Can Increase Your U.S. Tax Liabilities In recent years, there has been an increase in offshore […]
  Time to Bid Adieu to U.S. Citizenship? Each year, thousands of U.S. Citizens and Long-Term Lawful Permanent Residents (LTRs) […]
What is U.S. Exit Tax? One of the most common questions our international tax lawyers receive each year when U.S. […]
  What is Expatriation? One of the most common questions our international tax lawyers receive each year when U.S. Taxpayers […]
  Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures When a Taxpayer is a U.S. person for tax purposes and has not previously reported […]
  Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures  When a Taxpayer is a U.S. person for tax purposes and has not previously reported […]
Offshore Disclosure with Expatriation When a person is either considered a U.S. citizen or a Long Term Lawful Permanent Resident […]
How to Report Foreign Bank Accounts  Individuals who are considered U.S. persons for tax purposes may have several international information […]
Do U.S. Taxpayers Who Become Expats Avoid U.S. Taxes? One common misconception that many U.S. Taxpayers (understandably) have about moving […]
Which Options Do Taxpayers Have to File a Missed Form 3520? With another tax year upon us, many individual U.S. […]
Buying Golden Visas is Not a Wealth Strategy At Golding & Golding, our international tax law firm specializes exclusively in […]
  Expatriation Tax Planning for Long-Term Residents and U.S. Citizens  One of the most common questions our international tax lawyers […]
How Expats May Avoid U.S. Tax without Evading it (Examples) When U.S. taxpayers violate the Internal Revenue Code, oftentimes their […]
How Expats are Lured into Filing False Tax Returns or FBAR  Most tax violations are civil and not criminal. That […]
  Expatriation Tax Planning for Long-Term Residents and U.S. Citizens  One of the most common questions our international tax lawyers […]
  Expatriation Tax Planning for Long-Term Residents and U.S. Citizens  One of the most common questions our international tax lawyers […]
Expats Beware of the IRS CP88 Notice of Unfiled Tax Returns There are many reasons why a U.S. Taxpayer (living […]
When U.S. Tax Help for Expats Goes Wrong The international tax and reporting components of a U.S. tax return can […]
How U.S. Retirement is Taxed When You Expatriate  Expatriation is when a U.S. individual who is either a U.S. Citizen […]
How to Handle Multi-Year Late or Amended Tax Filings  IRS tax compliance is one of the most common issues for […]
IRS Expat Tax Amnesty   Each year, Taxpayers who are considered U.S. Persons for tax purposes may be required to report […]
How to Navigate an FBAR Examination The FBAR is a U.S.C. Title 31 Money and Finance form used to report […]
Common Form 8938 Examples for Expats, Residents, and Citizens While there are many different types of international information reporting forms […]
  How New U.S. Persons File Taxes  When foreigners first move to the United States or otherwise become U.S. persons […]
The IRS To Eliminate ‘Automatic’ Late Form 3520 Penalties Finally, after many years of Tax Practitioner challenges to the IRS […]
If I have a U.S. Visa, Do I Have to File Taxes?  When a U.S. Taxpayer is either a U.S. […]
When Do I Calculate the Expatriation Tax and How One of the most common questions our international tax lawyers receive […]
How U.S. Expats Can Avoid Criminal Tax Violations When a Taxpayer is considered a U.S. person for tax purposes, they […]
Do I Qualify for IRS New Voluntary Disclosure Practice (VDP)? For U.S. Person Taxpayers who are out of compliance with […]
Reporting Foreign Pension Income to the IRS It is very common for U.S. taxpayers who are considered U.S. persons for […]
5 Essential Compliance Factors for a Successful Offshore Disclosure The Internal Revenue Service has significantly increased enforcement for offshore disclosure […]
IRS Form 3520 CP15 Notice Penalty Response A U.S. taxpayer may have to file many different international information reporting forms […]
Understanding Australian Superannuation Unfortunately, the internet is littered with misinformation about how the United States taxes Australian superannuation accounts. Self-proclaimed […]
Common Tax Mistakes About Ending Citizenship or Residency Each year, our international tax attorneys are contacted by U.S. Taxpayers across […]
Why Act 60 is Not an Alternative to Renouncing Citizenship It is no secret that U.S. Taxpayers want to pay […]
Foreign Pension Reporting on Taxes and FBAR When a U.S. Person has foreign accounts, assets, and investments, the U.S. government […]
Can I Speak with an Accountant About a Late-Filed FBAR? When U.S. Taxpayers across the globe learn that they are […]