This is a very user-friendly guide for the U.S. tax filer who lives outside of the United States but is still required to file his or her U.S. tax return on an annual basis. This book explains, in an easy, informal and frequently humorous manner what the tax filer's requirements are and pitfalls to look out for to avoid what could otherwise be harsh penalties.<br><br>Asian Tax Review's Laurence E. Lipsher has written six prior, annual books, updating and expanding upon topics about the expat filer should be aware. Lipsher has spoken about taxes all over the world and is a popular 'tax entertainer'.<br><br>In addition, this year's book also includes 'Nine Essays from a Transpacific Rock 'n' Tax Man', a mini-memoir covering the author's years in the rock music business, overcoming a cocaine addiction to become a wine industry tax expert, and going through the weirdest manifestation of a mid-life crisis by starting all over again, twenty-five years ago, as an American accountant in the People's Republic of China.
Essential U.S. tax matters do not have to be boring! This book is accurate, very easy to understand and humorous. It is an aid for U.S. tax filers living outside the United States, describing the 'basics' of what they need to know in order to comply with laws that they are not being made aware of.<br><br>This is the fifth year in this series of annual books about taxation for the U.S. expat.
The U.S. tax filer living and working outside of the United States has new and different tax filing rules and forms. Penalty for not filing or incorrect filing can be severe.<br><br>This is the fifth book written by tax entertainer Larry Lipsher, a U.S. CPA who has lived outside the U.S. since 1990.<br><br>Larry proves that tax as stand-up comedy really does work and while the last thing that anyone of sound mind really wants to do at the end of the day is read a book about taxes, if you've got a tax predicament and find yourself having to do some 'research', then this is the book to read!
A guide for the overseas American tax filer, written especially for people who hate taxes.
There has not been anything written about U.S. taxation matters that apply to U.S. expats in over a decade.....until now! <br><br>Larry Lipsher's new book is written especially for the American taxpayer who lives and works outside of the U.S.<br><br>Tax year 2010 places a whole new set of tax rules, regulations and laws into operation with two major tax acts passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. FATCA, the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act will forever impact how Americans will do their banking and what they will have to report, in detail, for matters they were not required to report upon in the past.<br><br>Lipsher, a popular commentator of taxes in Asia for well over a decade, writes to get laughs from a subject that usually generates far more tears than laughter. He is brief and very much to the point, concentrating upon making a boring subject as interesting as possible!
This is a down-to-earth explanation (with the author's own cartoons) of how to do business and cope with the tax laws of 9 jurisdictions of Asia. Initially published in 2009, this critically acclaimed book explains how to start a business, how the business will be taxed, how the owners/participants will be taxed, mixed in with humorous foibles about life in Asia as an American expat.
This humorous, cynical, factual and very, very readable set of essays helps U.S. tax filers living outside of the United States understand their annual tax filing obligations which do exist even if they do not owe any taxes.<br><br>This is a book that leads one through the maze of tax forms and the penalties one might expect unless these tax forms are filed.