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Originally posted by BVF
I obviously didn't mean that you couldn't just leave the US and start claiming the exemption. That's why I said it for people that LIVE OUTSIDE OF THE US. That means mainly year round. The same thing for puerto rico and like I said in my ORIGINAL post that you FIRST must establish residence for AT LEAST A YEAR.
so how was it retarded and fucked up when you just repeated what the fuck I said in the first place?
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i know what you said exactly.
you said :
"I don't know if y'all realize this but you are aware that ANY us citizen that earns his income while not in the united states doesn't have to pay tax on the first 70K of income he makes. If you're a US webmaster and are doing your sites from mexico, you don't have to pay tax on the first 70k. Of course you still have to file the tax forms."
what is the relation to being a US webmaster and doing your sites from Mexico? Earning money in any foreign country does not make you exempt from federal income taxes as a US citizen.
to qualify for foreign earned income exclusion, you need to reside outside the US for 33O days of that tax year and earn your money in a country which has a double taxation treaty with the US (i think there is only 18)
its a far stretch to say you were saying the same thing or to say that i repeated what you said.
what you said was wrong and you are misinformed.