If you are a US citizen or resident alien (i.e. green card holder), then, you are suppose to file taxes with the United States authorities, especially at the Federal level (IRS) even if you do not live in the United States. The United States (and Eritrea, only two countries in the World) taxes its citizens
If you are selling or thinking of selling your home or rental property, the IRS has special resources to keep into consideration. Selling your home You can claim a capital gain exclusion of up to $250,000 (single) or $500,000 (married filing jointly), if you owned the home and lived in the main home for the
Based on IRS communication IR-2021-212, the IRS sent approximately 430,000 refunds totaling more than $510 million to taxpayers who paid taxes on unemployment compensation excluded from income for tax year 2020. Earlier this year, the IRS began its review of tax returns filed prior to the enactment of ARPA to identify the excludible unemployment compensation.
One week to the end of the 2020 tax season (May 17, 2021), the IRS backlogs keeps growing mainly driven by manual reviews and checks due to the unemployment benefits exclusion ($10,200), stimulus checks (rebate credit) that might not have reported accurately in the 2020 tax return, and other items such as Earned income credit.
As you might now around March 2021, the IRS approved the $10,200 income exclusion for unemployment benefits. The IRS notice IR-2021-71 mentioned that there is no need to file an amended return and that the IRS will recalculate taxes on unemployment benefits. The IRS expects that the refunds will start in May, 2021 for those
