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Art_from_Ark

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6. Ordinary foreign residents who earn money in the US, pay US income tax

Reply to laundry_queen (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 01:33 AM

Jan 2013

US expats living in other countries are given an exemption (around $90,000 of foreign-earned income for full-time residents of foreign countries) before they are required to pay US income tax, and the amount of US tax on income above that threshold depends on how much income tax they pay in their host countries.

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