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March 19, 2023
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No street address for the IRS is a problem

  • March 19, 2023
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What a headache US IRS taxes are, especially when you live and work outside of the US in another country.
So many reasons why it is obsurd to have to file 11 pages of tax forms to say you don't owe US taxes, but the worst is that I can't file eletronically if I earned no income in the US and qualify for foreign earned income exemption. That's insane. The tax system is so broken.
What's worse? When you live in a foreign country, in order to send tracked mail, you HAVE to have a street address.
But what does the IRS do? Gives an address like this with no street:
Department of Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Austin TX [removed]
I had to go to three different postal shops to find someone who could figure out how to send mail and skirt the requirement for a street address.

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Alumni - Champ
March 20, 2023

TAXPAYERS RESIDING OUTSIDE USA

Internal Revenue Submission Processing Center

3651 South Interregional Highway 35

Austin, TX  78741

jd_in_nzAuthor
Level 2
March 20, 2023

Well, if that is the correct address, then Turbotax has failed miserably and provided the wrong address in their "File by mail instructions" they provide when you print your return.
It wouldn't be the first time Turbotax has failed in something so basic.

Alumni - Champ
March 20, 2023

@jd_in_nz 

 

The address TT provided is the one the IRS provides

https://www.irs.gov/filing/international-where-to-file-form-1040-addresses-for-taxpayers-and-tax-professionals

The street address is used by private delivery services  , DHL,, UPS  and Fed EX.