Hello,
I'm British, my wife is American. She's lived and worked in the UK for well over a decade and her passport is due for renewal and only now realised she had to file for the US.
She has deep anxiety about these things and is freaking out about being arrested or being refused a passport so I'm looking into it for her.
She hasn't earned enough by my reckoning to accrue any tax via the foreign earned income threshold which is good.
I saw there's an IRS amnesty scheme but it costs a grand. Yuck.
She's pretty good at keeping records though.
So, would the best way of dealing with this be going down the amnesty route and paying a grand, or filing all her taxes the standard way going back years?
If the latter, how far back do TurboTax forms go? We're talking 2006/2007...
If they don't it might be easier just to go through the amnesty.
Also, can the IRS stop you getting a new passport if she's seriously behind?
Finally do you recommend a tax company in the UK be involved? If so, any recommendations?
Thanks in advance
