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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 14th 2026, 9:06 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,808
Posted By kodokan

Re: Tax burden for US 401k to Roth IRA rollover under UK FIG regime

Does anyone know if the same reasoning/ classification applies to a Traditional IRA? If not, the solve (for anyone who hasn’t already done an in-plan conversion) would be to roll the 401k into an...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 7th 2025, 9:55 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,753
Posted By kodokan

Re: Heading home after 17 years, with my new US husband

Update on our move, as we now have flights booked - we’ll be arriving in the UK Wednesday 26th November. Hopefully. Assuming our flights aren’t impacted by the shutdown chaos.

We’re...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 7th 2025, 9:41 am
Replies: 5
Views: 805
Posted By kodokan

Re: Keeping a US phone?

We’ve just done this ready for our move later this month. We set up an account with Tello, and ported over our long term US numbers from T Mobile. it was all very straightforward, and the switch...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 20th 2025, 2:37 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,753
Posted By kodokan

Re: Heading home after 17 years, with my new US husband

I’m primarily moving to the UK for family reasons, to have more time with my parents, but I’ll actually be better off there financially, personally.

In the US, I’m a 12% marginal rate of tax...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 18th 2025, 6:54 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,753
Posted By kodokan

Re: Heading home after 17 years, with my new US hu

Suffolk will actually be where we’ll start out when we get off the plane, as my parents live close to Lowestoft; I also have family in Stowmarket. At the moment, our thoughts are towards bigger...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 18th 2025, 6:47 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,753
Posted By kodokan

Re: Heading home after 17 years, with my new US husband

Before we started getting rid of everything, we had 33 bikes between the two of us 😆. Granted, not all of them worked as some were project bikes that my husband had got on FB Marketplace for $10...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 17th 2025, 7:57 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,753
Posted By kodokan

Re: Heading home after 17 years, with my new US hu

Sheffield definitely wins on central location, rental costs, and more chance of varied ethnic grocery stores, which we enjoy here. But more rainy and hilly, as dings against biking for transport.
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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 17th 2025, 6:03 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,753
Posted By kodokan

Heading home after 17 years, with my new US husband

Hi all! Been a while since I was posting on here regularly (in the USA forum), but I’m about to make another international move and adjust to a ‘new’ country, so here I am for some chitchat and...
Forum: USA
Aug 27th 2024, 4:08 am
Replies: 54
Views: 13,271
Posted By kodokan

Re: Best way to recoup tax withheld on UK pension lump sum

Following up… I decided that I’d use Form 2002 (because Glasgow Girl’s advice is always the correct one 🙂), but hadn’t actually got any further than printing out the form to complete, as...
Forum: USA
Dec 13th 2023, 3:48 am
Replies: 54
Views: 13,271
Posted By kodokan

Re: Best way to recoup tax withheld on UK pension lump sum

Good point on the likely processing times - I’ll mail it after the holidays once the post pipeline is a bit clearer, and expect it to be dealt with some time in the next 12 months.

Appreciate...
Forum: USA
Dec 13th 2023, 1:14 am
Replies: 54
Views: 13,271
Posted By kodokan

Re: Best way to recoup tax withheld on UK pension lump sum

So it looks like I’ll be going the Form 2002 route after all.

I did a test pass through my usual software of FreeTaxUSA, and they don’t support the ability to take a foreign tax credit outside...
Forum: USA
Nov 18th 2023, 12:37 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 13,271
Posted By kodokan

Re: Best way to recoup tax withheld on UK pension lump sum

Rightio, I’ll apply for a UTR (that I didn’t know I needed - thanks!), report back in a couple of months how the foreign tax credit scenario looks on this payout, and then follow up with anything...
Forum: USA
Nov 18th 2023, 7:45 am
Replies: 54
Views: 13,271
Posted By kodokan

Re: Best way to recoup tax withheld on UK pension lump sum

Thanks for such a thorough reply, and excellent useful information. Most importantly, I didn’t realize the foreign tax credit was calculated in that way; I’ve been thinking it’s a straight...
Forum: USA
Nov 16th 2023, 12:46 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 13,271
Posted By kodokan

Re: Best way to recoup tax withheld on UK pension lump sum

Ah, I suspected that a UK refund might involve waiting 6 months. I think then that I’ll run the foreign tax credit scenario through the tax software, and see what it spits out.

Mobile check...
Forum: USA
Nov 16th 2023, 8:59 am
Replies: 16
Views: 4,929
Posted By kodokan

Re: Barclays closing expat bank accounts

I have a First Direct account, and they’ve been absolutely fine about me living overseas in first Switzerland (2008-2011), and now the US. They’ve had my address all along. Years back I remember...
Forum: USA
Nov 16th 2023, 5:19 am
Replies: 54
Views: 13,271
Posted By kodokan

Best way to recoup tax withheld on UK pension lump sum

Last month I cashed out a small UK final salary pension; the fund was being closed by my ex-employer and handed off to an insurance company, and it made financial sense for me to take my cut under...
Forum: USA
Oct 10th 2023, 2:35 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,567
Posted By kodokan

Re: Renewing US passport - current times

Sorry, I wasn’t clear in my post - mine was a first time US passport, not a renewal. So I was especially pleased to get it processed more quickly than the times quoted, assuming there are extra...
Forum: USA
Oct 7th 2023, 10:57 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,305
Posted By kodokan

Re: enquiry about reporting UK bank interests to HMRC

I’ve kept a UK bank account open (with First Direct) for the last 15 or so years since leaving the UK, but it’s only a checking/ current account, which pays no interest. This seemed to be the...
Forum: USA
Sep 21st 2023, 6:46 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,567
Posted By kodokan

Re: Renewing US passport - current times

I did mine a few months ago, so not exactly current times, but the times are likely better now as the summer travel season is coming to an end.

I did the expedited service and paid for express...
Forum: USA
Sep 21st 2023, 6:23 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,529
Posted By kodokan

Re: UK people can donate blood now

Still in Ohio, yes. Graduated son, no… while he was taking a gap year during Covid to work full time instead, he met a girl, a co-worker at the grocery store. She was in an unstable, dysfunctional...
Forum: USA
Sep 15th 2023, 8:34 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,529
Posted By kodokan

UK people can donate blood now

This is somewhat old news, but a year or two back the FDA lifted the ban on blood donations from people who lived in the UK during Mad Cow Times.

I can today personally attest that yes, they will...
Forum: USA
Sep 9th 2021, 2:03 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 5,286
Posted By kodokan

Re: Current wait time for UK passport renewal

I sent mine FedEx, on their fully signed for service - worth the additional cost once a decade. Can’t remember the exact cost, but it was under $100 to send. Yes, that’s the usual UK passport...
Forum: USA
Aug 19th 2021, 8:41 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,599
Posted By kodokan

Re: Life and critical illness cover with UK provider

Same experience here with Aviva. I have a life insurance policy with them from nearly 20 years ago, and a zombie Stakeholder pension. They had no problem with my moving first to Switzerland, and now...
Forum: USA
May 5th 2021, 1:09 am
Replies: 32
Views: 5,286
Posted By kodokan

Re: Current wait time for UK passport renewal

I renewed mine last month; the new one arrived about 10 days later.

I had one of my kids take iPhone snaps of me against a pale grey wall for the photo. When I uploaded it, it was first rated as...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 22nd 2021, 11:27 am
Replies: 482
Views: 47,870
Posted By kodokan

Re: Covid-19 Vaccination -- Have You Gotten It?

How nice of you to remember about him! No, he’s got about 18 months of credits to go, but is actually on a gap year right now. When his campus shut down last March, he of course moved back home and...
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