If you get Social Security benefits get Publication 915 (has a handy worksheet)
Do you have a foreign bank account? Don't forget FBAR.
FBAR (Foreign Bank Account Report) Old rule: Any bank account over $10,000 must be reported. New rule: Must report if all bank accounts total $10,000 or more.
Health Coverage Exemptions
Basically to get this exemption the requirements are the same as the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.
You need Form 8965 (f8965). Also get the instructions (i8965). This gets filed with your 1040.
@Alien: Where do you get : "US health system is ridiculous in general"? Do you have any personl experience with the US health system? Have you ever even been to the US? I suspect you just had a 五毛 moment.
The US ACA, Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare, is a tax and a scheme for redistribution of wealth. Criticism of The US heath care system is not the quality and availability of care but how and who was paying for it. 90% of Americans had health insurance but that market insurance system was torn apart in hopes of providing insurance for the uninsured 10%. Even Obama stated that the total cost of insurance would go up. Young healthy persons are paying more, being taxed, so old sickly farts like me pay nothing. Last year, after returning to the US with no health insurance, I was treated for 65 days as an in-patient, given a wheelchair and a prosthetic brace and other stuff to take home. Then I received ten weeks in home therapy. Total cost, to me, of my stay and treatment was ZERO, nada, nothing. Not even五毛!
Cool! The local police don't usually require finger prints, I think. Glad to hear they came off the FBI requirement. It never was fast and doing it from China is slow and complicated.
Orchid, and her sister, run a great place. Good food, lots of free advice on where to go and how to get there. Want a tour, need a car, a ticket? See Orchid, she's the tall beautiful lady.
Every winter since 2004 I've headed south to Banna. First stop is Mei Mei's. Just tell the taxi driver "Mei Mei Cafe" and in about 10 minutes you are there.
Be aware they will push whatever they are selling. Some of the staff have no idea about the technical side of appliances.
I went there to buy a stove. I repeatedly told them I would be using bottled gas. They sold me a stove. When I went to my local gas guy, I learned there are at least three kinds of gas sold. Luckily, B&Q did not deliver as promised. I went back to the store and discovered they had sold me a stove they needed to be hooked up to the gas main. I got my money back.
The sales lady was almost in tears, 没有问题！I don't know if it a safety or design issue, but I would think B&Q would know and care.
Subway starts at 9am. I have no idea where to catch an airport express bus. Eight taxis refused to go to the airport. After almost an hour standing on Beijing Lu took a black taxi, this dude drives slower than my mother, 120 yuan.
Flight back was delayed so I learned the subway stops running at 6:10pm.
Getting a taxi back was easy, more taxis than customers. Taxi was 87 yuan including 1o yuan toll, airport to Beichen area. Yes, he took a longer route than necessary.
Kunming imagines being a gateway for international travelers. New airport but hard to get to and from it.
Interview: Orchid Zhang
发布者Mei Mei Cafe is great!
Orchid, and her sister, run a great place. Good food, lots of free advice on where to go and how to get there. Want a tour, need a car, a ticket? See Orchid, she's the tall beautiful lady.
Every winter since 2004 I've headed south to Banna. First stop is Mei Mei's. Just tell the taxi driver "Mei Mei Cafe" and in about 10 minutes you are there.
Now, if they just had T-Shirts