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Every case study in this series shares the same underlying process once the residency question and the non-willfulness question are settled…
1 min readThe situation: Kavita, a US citizen married to an Indian national, moved to Hyderabad in 2015 for her husband's career and continued earnin…
2 min readThe situation: Rohan holds a US green card but has run a small manufacturing business in Coimbatore for over a decade, structured as an Ind…
2 min readTwo different US laws require disclosure of foreign accounts, use different forms, different thresholds, and get filed to different agencie…
2 min readEvery streamlined filing rests on one sentence, signed under penalty of perjury: that the failure to report foreign accounts and income was…
2 min readThe situation: Meena, a US citizen born in the US to Indian immigrant parents, inherited her grandmother's house in Chennai in 2019, along…
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