[Asterisk-biz] Voip startup regulations question

[trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0600, Michael Welter wrote:
> > 
> > The best solution is to leave the US until the government fixes things
> > (yeah right).  If you live out of the US for 10-11 months (dpeending on
> > which program) as a US citizen you no longer have tax liability, and can
> > then work on no regulations of any kind.  
> 
> Sadly, you are mistaken.  The US is one of two countries that tax its 
> citizen's income world-wide.  While living in London, my tax returns 
> were a full tweo inches thick because of US/UK tax law.
> 
> If you doubt this then I suggest you speak with a tax advisor at Earnst 
> & Young.

*sigh*
http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq13-3.html
read up on the 330 day presense test.  They used to (may still) have a
program that if you are out of country 11 months out of the year total
or 10 months but at no time in country more than 2 weeks then you were
exempt).

However its quite clear on the 330 day presense test.



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