Money brought to US

[Natal 0]

Hello! I am a resident of USA because I won the lottery. I moved here together with my husband in January 2017. We brought about 15000$ cash with us to start. We declared this sum at the US custom. The next day I opened an account and deposited cash with 2 deposits: 10000$ and then 3000 the next day. I didn’t work the whole year. My husband did, so we filed the tax return together. And only now I realized that maybe we should have told them about money that we brought here with us? Should they be taxed? Will I be guilty of structuring money? I am really worried now as I did not do any crime and it i have just read some info that banks report everyone who brings cash $10000 and more. I don’t want to pay taxes for this sum either as it was the money that we earned before we moved here. We didn’t know how long we will have to search for jobs here. 

P. S. US custom didn’t give us any copy of declaration that we filed

Am I in trouble?

[geowrian 22,337]

There shouldn't be any tax consequence for this. That said, the customs form you completed clearly stated that you needed to declare anything over $10,000 in cash or other financial instruments that you are carrying with you. It only needed to be reported, but is not taxed.

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/195/kw/declaration more than 10,000 dollars

https://greatlakescustomslaw.com/money-seizures/failure-to-report-cash-to-customs-fincen-105/

 

 

Edit: Whoops...you said you declared it at customs. Ignore the above. You're fine.

Edited May 4, 2018 by geowrian

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4 minutes ago, Natal said:

Hello! I am a resident of USA because I won the lottery. I moved here together with my husband in January 2017. We brought about 15000$ cash with us to start. We declared this sum at the US custom. The next day I opened an account and deposited cash with 2 deposits: 10000$ and then 3000 the next day. I didn’t work the whole year. My husband did, so we filed the tax return together. And only now I realized that maybe we should have told them about money that we brought here with us? Should they be taxed? Will I be guilty of structuring money? I am really worried now as I did not do any crime and it i have just read some info that banks report everyone who brings cash $10000 and more. I don’t want to pay taxes for this sum either as it was the money that we earned before we moved here. We didn’t know how long we will have to search for jobs here. 

P. S. US custom didn’t give us any copy of declaration that we filed

Am I in trouble?

Honestly I don't see an issue here at all. You deposited the amount applicable under the law so there is no issue. What they are looking for are continued deposits or withdrawls of $8k to over $10k of cash a day or a week. Since you only did it twice then there shouldn't be an issue at all. Structuring is more like what I said of large amounts right at or under $10k every couple days to try to hide it from the IRS.

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You get taxed on what you earn, not on what you bring in. You’re fine.