January 2018

International Tax Seminar in Manila, Philippines

It confuses me that there are clients that honestly believe that 1 person can answer all their tax questions. More sophisticated clients understand that with international tax questions, they need a team.  A team with expertise in each jurisdiction that the client is exposed.  Our seminar was in Manila, therefore we had 2 members of […]

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Let’s Talk About the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion

When talking about the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion or FEIE, everyone understands the PPT or Physical Presence Test.  The BFT or the Bona Fide Residence test requires more effort to understand. I had previously written of the Section 911 exclusion here – https://www.mooresrowland.tax/2013/12/us-employee-working-in-iraq-and.html Here’s another recent article….. Pilot grounded on foreign income exclusion The Tax Court

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An Act to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Titles II and V of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2018

On Friday, December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed the massive tax bill. Formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – so-named because it cuts individual, corporate and estate tax rates, and the lower corporate tax rates are said to be a precursor to job creation – the bill went into history as “An Act

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