On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:01:23 -0800 (PST), PeterL
wrote:
>On Jan 7, 12:20 pm, Viking wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:48:59 +0100, Nathalie Chiva
>>
>> wrote:
>> >AFAIK, if you earn an income in the US *and* pay US tax on it, you
>> >won't pay much tax in France, double taxation isn't allowed. But phone
>> >the French consulate (if you live in the US now) or the French tax
>> >office (if you live in France) and ask.
>>
>> That's what we were hoping too--the book we read seemed to indicate
>> otherwise. Will talk to the French consulate. As far as double
>> taxation not being allowed, however, the US does it on their ex-pats
>> all the time.
>
>Taxes paid to foreign governments are deductible for US federal taxes.
So long as they are income taxes.
I lived in Montreal, Canada, from summer 1965 to summer 1966 and
my wife had a public school teaching job there while I had income
from McGill University as a Demonstrator (teaching assistant).
This meant we had to file:
Kentucky joint income tax return (from whence we moved to
Montreal)
US joint income tax return
Canadian income tax return for me
Canadian income tax return for my wife
Quebec income tax return for me
Quebec income tax return for my wife
And we did get a tax credit for the income taxes paid to Canada
and Quebec.
We returned to the USA in the summer of 1966, heading straight
for Arizona after that winter in Montreal. When filing my 1966
taxes I came out owing Canada US $106. I thought to myself that
it was going to be a lot of bother paying Canada and then taking
the tax credit for it on my US return, coming out a wash, and we
wouldn't be returning to Canada to live, anyway, so what the
hell, let the US have the money; IIRC I never filed the Canadian
and Quebec tax forms.
Now that they're going to be scanning passports at the
Canadian-US border, I sure hope the CAnadian statute of
limitations has run out on my tax evasion.
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