Countries
US expat tax by country
Wherever you live, the US filing framework is the same: US citizens and green-card holders report worldwide income to the IRS every year. What changes from country to country is the detail, whether a tax treaty exists, how local pensions and investments are treated, and how the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and Foreign Tax Credit interact with the tax you already pay where you live.
Each country guide below goes deep on what actually moves your US return: treaty positions and withholding rates, local retirement accounts and how the IRS taxes them, PFIC and foreign-company reporting, self-employment tax and totalization agreements, FBAR and FATCA thresholds, common mistakes, and worked examples with real numbers. These are full guides, not summaries.
Not sure whether the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion or the Foreign Tax Credit fits your situation? Start with the free FEIE vs FTC calculator, then read your country guide. New to filing from abroad? The FEIE guide and do I still have to file if I owe $0? cover the basics.
Africa
Americas
- Americans in Canada
- Americans in Mexico Estadounidenses en México
- Americans in Brazil Americanos no Brasil
- Americans in Costa Rica Estadounidenses en Costa Rica
- Americans in Turks and Caicos
- Americans in Cuba
- Americans in Panama Estadounidenses en Panamá
- Americans in Colombia Estadounidenses en Colombia
- Americans in Ecuador Estadounidenses en Ecuador
- Americans in Argentina Estadounidenses en Argentina
Asia
- Americans in South Korea 한국 거주 미국인
- Americans in Japan 日本在住の米国人
- Americans in Hong Kong
- Americans in Singapore
- Americans in Thailand
- Americans in Taiwan 在台灣的美國人
- Americans in Philippines
- Americans in China 在中国的美国人
- Americans in North Korea
- Americans in India
- Americans in Bangladesh
Central Asia
Europe
- Americans in United Kingdom
- Americans in Germany
- Americans in France
- Americans in Switzerland
- Americans in Netherlands
- Americans in Ireland
- Americans in Spain
- Americans in Italy
- Americans in Poland
- Americans in Sweden
- Americans in Greece
- Americans in Norway
- Americans in Portugal
- Americans in Russia
- Americans in Monaco
- Americans in Belarus
Middle East
- Americans in United Arab Emirates
- Americans in Saudi Arabia
- Americans in Qatar
- Americans in Kuwait
- Americans in Bahrain
- Americans in Iraq
- Americans in Israel אמריקאים בישראל
- Americans in Turkey
- Americans in Syria
- Americans in Iran