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Old Feb 22nd 2006 | 5:35 am
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Default Re: First US tax return - please help!

Originally Posted by Bob
It's $80K.

It gets tricky if you claimed your UK tax back for not being a resident...
I did.
Can they find out or can I just play dumb ??
(I only earned a few £k before I left)
 
Old Feb 22nd 2006 | 5:38 am
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Default Re: First US tax return - please help!

Originally Posted by Bob
You can actually, if you ain't been a resident for a whole tax year you can claim it back, I did before I left....does make it interesting for US taxes though because then you have to claim it over here...but I didn't make the threshold so it didn't matter

i stand corrected! bugger
 
Old Feb 22nd 2006 | 5:45 am
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Default Re: First US tax return - please help!

Originally Posted by BigDavyG
I did.
Can they find out or can I just play dumb ??
(I only earned a few £k before I left)
I don't know if they can find out, but if they did, tax fraud, gets you the boot doesn't it...so who knows, but if it's only a few K, then I don't think it matters, depends on how much you can deduct and all that...
 

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