Question for ppqnidrauk or anyone else If you have a single member passthrough LLC and then later become a tax resident of a non-US country, does your LLC have to change taxation approach from passthrough to C-Corp or S-Corp?

Super nuanced question, but if your company loans you money as a shareholder -- shouldn't the loan be deduced from the ordinary income? I don't see it reflected on the K-1 unless I a missing context into another step which needs to happen aside from outlining it on the balance sheet. (happy to pay for a quick consult as well)

Does anyone know If perpetual travelers qualify for the FEIE?

Absolutely. You still have to meet the presence test, and it helps if you have as few ties as possible back home (car, house, etc, can all be used against you). But I travel full time (over 5 years now) and have been filing feie the entire time. I'm generally not in a place more than a month at a time.

Just remember that territories like puerto rico and USVI count as days in the US, as do days at sea (cruises, etc), and transit days that take more than 24 hours can count against you as well, so it's more nuanced than just 35 days in the US.

How are you meeting the presence test? From what I read basically you have to have another “tax home” to qualify for FEIE (at least that’s my interpretation). I mean what I’m asking is are you a resident of another country? Or how are you navigating this?

My established tax home is wherever I happen to be, as that's where I'm working at the time, and changes throughout my travels. My accountant (<@UMJ7P5B5W>) files an attachment with all my tax homes over the course of my qualifying FEIE period.

there's two ways to qualify, having a tax home abroad, or spending fewer than X days in the US

wplxzmzcxcwxb You're confusing your tax home with bonafide residency. Very different concepts.

Yeah you can have bonafide residency in a country without being a tax resident there

_and transit days that take more than 24 hours can count against you as well, so it's more nuanced than just 35 days in the US._ --- only for those in/out of the US tho right?

No, if you're traveling anywhere for more than 24 hours, that means you spent a day without an established tax home. But even that gets more complicated. It's not takeoff and landing time, when you left/entered airspace is what matters. Good luck figuring that part out. :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

But I feel like cglpswelzo can explain better if she has time. It's tax season though.

Does anyone have documentation on being a digital nomad and the ways it does not put a company at risk for tax compliance? (ex. traveling on tourist visas, staying < 90 days, etc) I'm seeking assurance for a job offer at a startup

so i take a 3 day journey australia to singapore by ship and it's supposed to contribute to time in the US? i do a sea cruise all around australia in 5 days and it's supposed to contribute to time in the US?

my understanding was that leaving the US on the 12th, transiting on the 13th, and arriving in say thailand on the 14th will count as 2 US days, although thought the above situations would be 0

Soooooo you really need to reverse your thinking on this to understand it. The way the statue is written, you need to spend 330 day out of any 365 period _PRESENT IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY -_ so any time not spent present in a foreign country, be it a US territory, restricted country (N Korea, Cuba, Iran) or international waters doesn't count towards your 330

I'd be interested as well.

Can you be hired via your own corporation?

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a Canadian expat accountant in here? crossed_fingersskin-tone-4

I'll DM you a link

Is automatic tax extension for expats based on if you apply for FEIE? Or is it based on where you're physically located on Apr 15? For example if you spent all 2021 abroad but visited the US Apr 10th-20th 2022 do you still get the automatic extension

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You need to be out of the country on April 15 (or the first following business day, whatever the tax deadline is that year.)

Has anyone filed with NYS as a nonresident/part-year resident? For someone who lived and worked 5 months out of NYC in 2021, what do you answer to part G in IT-203:
(2) Lived outside NYS; _received income_ from NYS sources during nonresident period OR (3) Lived outside NYS; _received no income_ from
NYS sources during nonresident period.

Be careful with this if you haven't established residency/domicile somewhere else. NYS has been very aggressive about pursuing residency changes

But to answer your question, did you have NYS source income?

Thanks for the heads up.
What I'm trying to figure out is if NYC address on W2 (employer's) automatically makes it NYS source income. Any of the points www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/pit/ny_source_income_nonresident.htm#:~:text=services%20performed%20in%20New,in%20New%20York%20State%3B|here apply to that?

If your employer is based in NY, it's NY sourced income

Having trouble finding the answer to this, hope that someone can help.

I am a resident of NH, and I lived in NYC for 5 months in 2021. I worked at a NY gym so I received NY point-source income, which I will file and pay NY state tax on. I also did remote consulting work while I lived in NYC as a sole proprietor. My question is this is the income I earned through my consulting attributable to NH as a resident (pay no state tax) or to NY since I was living there (pay NY state tax)?

Happy tax day everyone 💰

not an accountant and curious of the answer gut feel expectation is you are liable for paying NY tax as your butt was in a seat in NY

I overcontributed to a Roth IRA for 2021. I thought I fixed it before tax day, but schwab didn't do what i asked. Since I'm abroad, do I have until 18 June to fix it? or am i going to owe a penalty?

sorry if this is not strictly us-taxed based, but is partially do to FEIE. how are people dealing with taxes in the EU/Shengen area? are you just adhering to a <183 day rule for a calendar year? or are there other country-specific income tax rules that need to be carefully considered? my friend thinks i need to pay taxes in some countries on a day-by-day basis becuase i’m claiming FEIE for US taxes. specifically France. any insights are greatly appreciated!

Claiming FEIE itself has no bearing on your tax responsibilities in other nations but this is definitely a question to bring to an accountant who specializes in taxes for nomads

What I recall being told about FEIE is that I can qualify under one of two possible scenarios:
1. I’m in other countries (not including travel) for X days out of the year, or
2. I’m a tax resident of another country.
I have not heard that if I’m claiming it under scenario #1 that this would mean that this impacts taxes owed to other non-US countries. Each country will have their own separate tax rules.

Claiming FEIE is not related to paying taxes in other countries. The exclusion was created with that intention, if you're not in the US, you're probably paying somewhere else as an expat, but it's not written into the law in any way. You're fine.

If you're in France for more than 183 days though, that could be an issue with France. Talk to an accountant there to see if you owe taxes.

There are two ways to qualify for FEIE. You can either use the physical presence test or the bona fide residency test. For physical presence, you just need to be outside the US for 330+ days, no questions asked. For the bona fide residency test, you are allowed to spend more time in the United States but must show that you are a bona fide resident of another country. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re paying taxes in another country but it often does. Most nomads go with the physical presence test.

I wouldn't say "no questions asked" on the presence test. There are lots of grey areas.

pbe that makes sense. i think as you said, i need to consult with a tax professional in France just to make sure there are no exceptions to the 183 day rule of thumb

w-2 and willing to let you travel anywhere any time? didn't seem like the accountants at any company i was at were interested in that arrangement, had to go llc myself.

yeah. im fully remote. i would guess most “fully remote” positions are W-2, but maybe i’m wrong about that

my prior company (w-2) did not want to deal with potential tax liability. my new company tried to bring me on as w-2, and the accountants wanted to have a very good understanding of where and how long i'd be somewhere, and it added a week if not two to my offer process until they simply said they'd need to bring me on as contractor and would like me to be an LLC. the former was private looking to go public and has ~1500 people and the current is a startup with around 50 when i joined. now the tax liability and questions is fully my problem so am pretty free to travel on whatever schedule. having no employees i don't think the FEIE has much of a bearing on this, i started using an expat accountant once i started qualifying for FEIE with >= 330 days out of the US though.

cndcshgbtot do you know what you designated as your “tax home”? have you been using “itinerant”? if you have an expat accountant that you can recommend, that would be greatly appreciated. please DM me if that is more appropriate. thanks in advance

i used www.greenbacktaxservices.com/ and moved from IL to NV and assume the latter is my "tax home"

can’t qualify for FEIE with a “tax home” in the US, so it can’t be that

2020 taxes only FEIE ones i filed. i'm sure it is thailand then.

I'm W2 and have claimed FEIE for 5 years in a row. No problems.

Your tax home is wherever you're working from. My tax home changes several times per year.

czs that’s good to hear regarding no problems with w2. so do you list all tax homes in the form or just use itinerant? if you do list, is it a physical address or just a country?

Our practice is to list each country worked from as a tax home, beginning the date you enter that country. Only one address is needed on the 2555 form

so it seems tax home on line 9 just needs to be in “country, date” format, for all countries worked from during the window. then just the one address on line 1.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a CPA/CFP? I’m a CA based C-Corp. Thanks!

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If claiming FEIE, does that also reduce your MAGI for Roth IRA eligibility? Basically, if under the FEIE limits that means you can't contribute to a Roth IRA because you have no taxable income?

yeah, this is what a tax consultant told me years ago. the solution would be to not claim all of the FEIE and leave a portion of it taxable (eg. right at $6,000) so you can contribute fully to the Roth IRA and not pay more taxes than you have to

The IRS considers that double dipping. Can't use tax advantaged funds to contribute to tax advantaged accounts.

Contribute to a backdoor roth IRA and you don't have to worry about this (if you can)

Does anyone Brazilian citizen (Brazilian residency also) has experience opening a US company with a US Citizen partner? I don’t need to open a legal company with my partner, but I would like too. My goal is to keep my money invested in the US.

Why bother with a US citizen partner?

I have a friend who is Portuguese living in Portugal and she is about to receive an inheritance from the US. Anyone know a professional she should speak with?

What are the best investments right now

I think there’s a money channel. But probably US Treasury I-Bonds

IIUC its when the aggregate value of all your foreign accounts exceeds 10k (at any point during the year)

I just had my O1 visa approved and if I move to USA I'll be paying like 100K in taxes and now I'm thinking of jsut staying in dubai tax free but the states comes with opportunity despite the tax it gives me scope to network and meet folks in my industry and I'm 23 is this worth it or nah?

how'd you estimate your taxes

We are partners… we have a business that is already operating in the US. Today we use only his name as a business entity, but the business is growing and I want to create this new entity that we both are owners (50% shares each).