As 2022 draws to a close, companies around the world that look after American expats' financial, tax and citizenship issues are, it seems, busy planning for the year ahead. And as they're doing so, many are looking to hire new staff, with the specialist qualifications such businesses require. 

Below are some of the jobs on offer...

Oct. 15 is the final, final due date for Americans to file their U.S. tax returns with the IRS in 2021.

With this all-important deadline just hours away, we thought it worth asking, on behalf of those expat Americans who still haven't filed their 1040s, what they can, or should, be doing now...

Sometime around 2016, the U.S. State Department increased its published estimate of the number of Americans resident outside of the U.S. to 9 million from 8.7 million, and it has yet to announce any reduction in that estimate...

'Tax Day' for Americans living outside of the U.S. was on June 15. But not everyone who should have filed their 2020 U.S. tax returns by that date will know that.

Because, as Allyson Lindsey, Bright!Tax partner and managing Certified Public Accountant explains below, millions of Americans who currently live overseas have failed to file U.S. tax returns covering one or one or more years that they should have...

It's hardly a secret at this point that 2021 has been a bit of a struggle for the IRS. As we've been told, the reasons include – as with just about every government agency (and company) around the world – the pandemic, as well as, in the IRS's case, the need to distribute two new rounds of stimulus checks to millions of U.S. taxpayers around the world at short notice.

The last few weeks have seen the price of Bitcoin soar, accompanied by a roar of commentary from those who see it, and other cryptocurrencies, as the future.  

This latest round of Bitcoin mania was kicked off earlier this month, when (Bitcoin fan) Elon Musk's car company, Tesla, announced in an SEC filing that it had bought US$1.5bn worth of the cryptocurrency, and that it would also begin accepting Bitcoin in payment for its products... 

The four-day "2021 Expats Virtual Financial Summit" wrapped up on Friday, having attracted more than 700 participants to its nine sessions, and was branded a success by spokespeople for the various companies that came together to put it on.

These included the American Expat Financial News Journal, the editor of which served as the event's moderator.

Over four days beginning on Tuesday the 26th of January, ten experts from around the world will be sharing their expertise on a range of financial topics of interest to American expats, as part of the first of what it is thought could become a series of "virtual financial summits" aimed at Americans who live outside of the U.S.

As American expats and their tax preparers come down to the final stretch of the Oct. 15 Foreign Bank Account Reports (FBAR) deadline, concerns are emerging over whether the data they’re about to send to the U.S. could, at some point, fall into the wrong hands.

 As Bright!Tax partner and managing Certified Public Accountant Allyson Lindsey explained last month, Americans who are resident outside the U.S. are potentially eligible to receive a "recovery rebate" check or automatic deposit, as part of a US$2.2 trillion bipartisan bill aimed at providing emergency relief to individuals and businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

Here, she addresses further issues expats are having as they try to secure their COVID-19 rebate money, including the fact that they don’t need a U.S. bank account to receive it...