American Expat Lessons Learned

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Not filing an FBAR might cost you more than not filing a 1040
Filing an FBAR seems unimportant. It’s not. It’s cheap financial disaster insurance.
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Warren O. Eaton
Should you tell Uncle Sam you’re an American?
There are good reasons not to.
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Warren O. Eaton
Expat by chance
How random events led me from a small Wyoming town to a life in Canada
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Breaking up is hard to do
The romantic truth about selling stock
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A scary Chat prospect...for me
I’m going to use Substack Chat to discuss a guide I’m currently writing. Read below and comment on Chat, and I'll give you a free copy of the finished…
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🇺🇸 Expats’ black widow spider
FBAR, the silent overlooked threat to your financial health
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Warren O. Eaton
Expat IRS escape routes
How to put 1040's and FBARs in the rearview mirror
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Warren O. Eaton
Are you an American with a foreign bank account?
You really need to know what an FBAR is.
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Crime-Punishment Mismatch
The Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) is an annual filing required of any American who has foreign financial accounts whose calendar-year maxima total…
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Is FBAR efficiency an oxymoron?
Streamlining my FBAR preparations made it less of an oxymoron.
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Before you leave
…arrange a US investment account
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𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗕𝗔𝗥?
A startling US Department of Treasury regulation states that "... a child is responsible for filing his or her own FBAR report."
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Warren O. Eaton
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