My First US Tax Return - HELP!

[Zarathustra 0]

Hi World!

I lived half of 2007 in the UK and half in the US....... I had taxable income in both countries, and have paid what I believe to be due in both cases.

I am a 'resident alien' here in the US and my wife an I intend to file a joint tax return.

Considering we live in Northern Virgina, can anyone suggest a good accountant he has a track record of working like cases? Alternatiely, any ideas as to how to find a suitbale accountant would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks, Z.

[Zarathustra 0]

Cough....

[Married_my_love 0]

Cough....

I can't recommend anyone in your area, but I can recommend making sure whoever you go with knows what they're doing as far as Foreign Tax Credit. Our HR guy said he'd "figure it out" and we're still screwed up from 2006.

Hope you get some assistance.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Cough....

H&R Block local office and ask for someone with knowledge of Foreign Tax Credits....

http://www.hrblock.com

Kez

[The Robinsons 0]

I can't recommend anyone either. We had the same problem filing this year. Plus my husband had to use the foreign earned tax credit when filing for 2006. Being that he was still in Europe when he had to file for 2006 we had no choice but to do it ourself. And this year we used TurboTax.com. If you're ok with numbers and you use the IRS instructions from their website it's not at all hards to do yourself. (at least I didn't think so). But good luck though.

Oh as a note......the IRS at the U.K. embassy was very very helpful in providing us with information on how to file.

[one_day_at_a_time 0]

I can't recommend anyone either. We had the same problem filing this year. Plus my husband had to use the foreign earned tax credit when filing for 2006. Being that he was still in Europe when he had to file for 2006 we had no choice but to do it ourself. And this year we used TurboTax.com. If you're ok with numbers and you use the IRS instructions from their website it's not at all hards to do yourself. (at least I didn't think so). But good luck though.

Oh as a note......the IRS at the U.K. embassy was very very helpful in providing us with information on how to file.

Please review these IRS Publications:

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p54/ch01.html#d0e1278

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p519/ch01.html#d0e1628

Somewhat mind-boggling, but we took our time, reviewed these publications, input information in TurboTax, called the IRS Help Line a number of times on specific topics and in the end got a nice little chunk of change