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Hello everyone, I acquired a house in 2009 in Vietnam and immigrated to the USA for the first time in 2015. Now in 2024, I want to sell that house and transfer the money to the USA. I have a couple of questions that I need help with: 1. Do I need to pay US taxes for that sale (the Vietnam tax for that sale is 2% of the…
Hello there, I am new to using FreeTaxUSA and could use some guidance on a specific situation. My spouse and I are planning to file jointly for the first time this year; and we have a bit of a complicated scenario involving foreign ;income. My spouse worked abroad for part of the year and earned income from that…
A non US broker sold a portion of my RSU that vested. Subsequently they paid the tax to the foreign govementment I declared the stock sale in the 1099-b but i am not sure if i can declare the foreign taxes paid as federal taxes. if not how do i proceed?
My mother is a resident of Ohio and receives a pension from Puerto Rico (from my father's government job) in addition to Social Security. I need to know how specifically to report that pension income on the 1040 form. Is it considered foreign income? I have asked 4 local accountants and none of them knew. One of them, a…
I have $1000 in foreign taxes which comes from foreign income in multiple countries, some via RIC and some not. I would like to take the foreign tax credit. How do I enter that in the "Tell us more about your foreign income" page? There's only room for a single country as the income source, and only a single choice as to…
I have had no luck chasing down details for a specific holding. I have received from my brokerage a 1099 that details my dividends received, and the total foreign tax withheld. One holding, VTIAX, is spelled out very plainly - 90.77%. I've taken that and multiplied it up against my total dividends for VTIAX to get THAT…
I am an American who spent 23 years in the UK. From that time, I possess a state pension and a couple of tiny private pensions. These pensions are paid into a UK bank account. Some of the money from these pensions is spent in the UK when I visit old friends once a year. My UK bank told me recently that they would soon shut…
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