I am a U.S. citizen who has lived abroad for several years and didn know I had to file a U.S. tax return? What do I do now?
As a U.S. citizen or resident alien (valid green card holder), you are required to file a return for any year that your income exceeded the minimum income levels. If you had a filing requirement, your earned income is foreign sourced, and you choose the exclusion, you should begin by filing the current year’s tax return and the preceding two years. You can choose the exclusion on a return provided you owe no federal income tax after taking into account the exclusion. If you owe federal income tax after taking into account the exclusion, you can choose the exclusion on a return filed after the periods described above provided you file before IRS discovers that you failed to choose the exclusion. You must type or legibly print at the top of the first page of the Form 1040 “Filed pursuant to Section 1.911-7(a)(2)(i)(D).
Related Questions
- My last withholding deposit will not be paid from by bank account until the last day of January. Can I file my WT‑7 return using My Tax Account before the last day of January?
- I am a U.S. citizen who has lived abroad for several years and didn know I had to file a U.S. tax return? What do I do now?
- What payment account types do not require the filing of a My Tax Account return?
