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How To File Taxes If You Have Foreign Income

I did not know the United States taxed worldwide income until I had been living here for two years.

Let me be honest with you: I overpaid my taxes for three years in a row. Not because I was careless. Not because I did not try.

My first tax season in the United States was, to put it kindly, a disaster. Not because I did anything wrong, but because nobody told me anything.