by Noah Green CPA CFE | Jun 20, 2026 | Americans Abroad
The short version This is the last article in a series about coming home, on paper, from being behind on US taxes while living abroad. The earlier pieces cover the mechanics: which program fits, the test that decides whether you owe a penalty, the one certification...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Jun 20, 2026 | Americans Abroad
The short version Here is a hard fact that catches careful, honest people every year. You can owe the IRS nothing in tax and still face a five-figure or six-figure penalty, because of a form you never knew existed. The form is Form 3520, and it is the landmine in an...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Jun 20, 2026 | Americans Abroad
The short version If you are an American abroad with years of unfiled foreign bank account reports, you have probably heard a frightening number. The fear goes like this: the penalty for a missed report is per account, so if you held ten foreign accounts across five...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Jun 20, 2026 | Americans Abroad
The short version If you live overseas, your passport is the document your whole life runs on. It is how you stay in your host country, how you open a bank account, how you board a plane, and how you get home. So this is the part of an IRS debt that frightens American...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Jun 20, 2026 | Americans Abroad
The short version You are behind on your US filings. Maybe you missed some foreign bank account reports, maybe a few years of returns, and now you want to fix it quietly. The instinct is almost universal: file the back returns, file the amended returns, file the...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Jun 20, 2026 | Americans Abroad
The short version If you are an American living abroad with years of unfiled returns or unfiled foreign bank account reports, there is one question that sits upstream of every other decision in your case: was your failure to file non-willful, or was it willful. That...
