https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405204#M1254994 As a US citizen living abroad, my 2024 income is only US based (W2 and 401K retirement distribution), I have 3 Kids (US citizen), when I file 2024 tax return, can I use standard deduction and benefit from child tax credit?, basically filing like a US citizen living in US? thank you for you precious help Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:24:12 GMT abdels2001 2026-02-12T04:24:12Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405204#M1254994 As a US citizen living abroad, my 2024 income is only US based (W2 and 401K retirement distribution), I have 3 Kids (US citizen), when I file 2024 tax return, can I use standard deduction and benefit from child tax credit?, basically filing like a US citizen living in US? thank you for you precious help Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:24:12 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405204#M1254994 abdels2001 2026-02-12T04:24:12Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405224#M1255006 <P>Where you live in the world has no affect on your federal tax return for the standard deduction or claiming a dependent on the tax return.&nbsp; Nor does it affect what credits you may be eligible for on the tax return.</P> <P>You complete and file your federal&nbsp; tax return as you normally would.</P> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:58:10 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405224#M1255006 DoninGA 2024-12-03T14:58:10Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405251#M1255025 <P>Thank you So much for your quick reply and clarification,</P><P>I understand well now, however I used to live in Texas which doesn't have State income tax, my W2 I will receive for 2024 is from the couple of months I worked when in Texas, so my understanding is that no state tax is needed, please let me know if I am correct, I mean when you leave abroad no state income tax needs to be filed.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you again for your precious help</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:37:37 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405251#M1255025 abdels2001 2024-12-03T16:37:37Z https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405252#M1255026 <P><a href="https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5641376">@abdels2001</a>&nbsp;You are correct there is no state tax return to file since Texas does not have a personal income tax.</P> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:39:49 GMT https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-hi-tax-expert-i-have-been-filing-with-many-year-as-us-citizen-living-in-us-in-2024-i-moved-abroad/01/3405252#M1255026 DoninGA 2024-12-03T16:39:49Z