Hi again Jordan! Great Video 😄! I'm still looking to relocate to France, and am waiting on some stuff before doing so. I'd like to finish college there, but will likely need to work to support myself. Do you have any advice about finding work? A video about finding work would be awesome 😄
Hey thanks for your comment! That's not a bad idea actually as I recently started another full time job recently and know many different platforms that people use to find jobs in France so I can share a list based on people fields of interest and legal working rights etc.! I'll gather my thoughts and organize a video!
I have lived in Germany for the past thirteen years and have NEVER filed my income from here to the IRS. In 2020 I moved back to the US for a year and only filed my US income. You do not have to file you income with the IRS if you're not working for an American company.
Hello Jordan, As a French citizen and EU citizen, I don’t understand exactly, I’m sorry, why American people have to declare their incomes to USA government, when they leave abroad of USA. Thanks a lot all for your very interesting and informative videos.😉🤩👍🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇸 Kind regards.
Hello ! It's a great question, but I think it's to keep track of citizen's incomes to catch people who are illegally operating. For example there might be some people who make a lot of money and declare to the US that they live 60% of the time outside the US, which means they would be paying taxes in another country...but in reality maybe they are just using that as an excuse to pay lower taxes. (we can see this in Europe too when French and other European athletes move to Monaco, Dubai, or Switzerland to avoid paying higher taxes on revenue)
Thanks man, I know I've been uploading less videos lately since moving back to Paris because I'm much busier than I was in Limoges and find it harder to manage my time. Now that the weather is getting better and I'll have more sunlight, it will be easier to make some videos before or after work soon. This helps give me some motivation, thank you!
So, you have to pay French AND American taxes ? What an awful situation ! And you must pay these US taxes in dollars as it's American, or in euros as you live in France ?
Hello! No we don't necessarily have to pay taxes in the US unless your income is above 100k a year which most Europeans don't reach even close to that threshold (and certainly not me ^^), but we do need to declare our income each year to the US so they can know how much we are making and not "cheating the system". I'm not sure how it would be if I moved back to the States...since I'm dual citizen I might need to do the same thing for taxes in France and declare my earnings from abroad?
@@JordanPatrick Hi Jordan! I’m an Irish citizen living in California and I used to live and work in France. Only two countries in the world have citizenship-based taxation, the US and Eritrea. If/when you move back to the US, you would not need to declare your income to the French government, even if you have dual citizenship. You may need to declare something the year you leave, but only income you earned in France. Since I left Ireland 10 years ago, I have not had to declare or pay anything to the Irish government. In some cases, where you have assets in France above a certain value, you would need to pay things like wealth tax, property tax, etc., but the amount you would need to accumulate is quite a lot. I’ve been researching it recently because I plan to move back to France, but I’ll have dual US/Irish citizenship and my salary is above the cut off for US taxes. It’s really complicated to figure out what would work best, it would be awesome if the US didn’t have citizenship-based taxation. Malheureusement c’est la vie 💸
Yes!!! I'm an immigrant in France while being an expat(riot) of the US. They aren't contradictory statements :). This video is aimed for all Americans living abroad in countries around the world (that means they are immigrants in whichever country they moved to)
@@JordanPatrick Seems we agree on the terminology of "immigrants". So let's be honest; "ex-pats" was only invented to distinguish white immigrants from blacks and thus is inherently racist. It has always angered me that Americans, the English and Australians, etc are expats yet anyone from African or the Eastern world are immigrants.
@@JordanPatrick Just a reminder that there is a word that puts everyone in the same basket. "Emigrant is a noun, meaning "one who leaves one's place of residence or country to live elsewhere."
Hi again Jordan! Great Video 😄! I'm still looking to relocate to France, and am waiting on some stuff before doing so. I'd like to finish college there, but will likely need to work to support myself. Do you have any advice about finding work? A video about finding work would be awesome 😄
Hey thanks for your comment! That's not a bad idea actually as I recently started another full time job recently and know many different platforms that people use to find jobs in France so I can share a list based on people fields of interest and legal working rights etc.! I'll gather my thoughts and organize a video!
That would be awesome 🙂 thanks Jordan!
I have lived in Germany for the past thirteen years and have NEVER filed my income from here to the IRS. In 2020 I moved back to the US for a year and only filed my US income. You do not have to file you income with the IRS if you're not working for an American company.
This great. Thanks for this!!
Hello Jordan,
As a French citizen and EU citizen,
I don’t understand exactly, I’m sorry,
why American people have to declare their incomes to USA government, when they leave abroad of USA.
Thanks a lot all for your very interesting and informative videos.😉🤩👍🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇸
Kind regards.
Hello !
It's a great question, but I think it's to keep track of citizen's incomes to catch people who are illegally operating. For example there might be some people who make a lot of money and declare to the US that they live 60% of the time outside the US, which means they would be paying taxes in another country...but in reality maybe they are just using that as an excuse to pay lower taxes. (we can see this in Europe too when French and other European athletes move to Monaco, Dubai, or Switzerland to avoid paying higher taxes on revenue)
@@JordanPatrick Hello Jordan,
Thank you for your very clear explanations, with examples.
I understand why.
Thanks. ^^
Miss u Bro, make more videos/vlogs please.
Thanks man, I know I've been uploading less videos lately since moving back to Paris because I'm much busier than I was in Limoges and find it harder to manage my time. Now that the weather is getting better and I'll have more sunlight, it will be easier to make some videos before or after work soon. This helps give me some motivation, thank you!
@@JordanPatrick And that blurry background is messing with me and my Kettle One Cocktail. lol
IRA?
Girl I just used turbo tax
So, you have to pay French AND American taxes ? What an awful situation ! And you must pay these US taxes in dollars as it's American, or in euros as you live in France ?
Hello! No we don't necessarily have to pay taxes in the US unless your income is above 100k a year which most Europeans don't reach even close to that threshold (and certainly not me ^^), but we do need to declare our income each year to the US so they can know how much we are making and not "cheating the system". I'm not sure how it would be if I moved back to the States...since I'm dual citizen I might need to do the same thing for taxes in France and declare my earnings from abroad?
@@JordanPatrick Hi Jordan! I’m an Irish citizen living in California and I used to live and work in France. Only two countries in the world have citizenship-based taxation, the US and Eritrea. If/when you move back to the US, you would not need to declare your income to the French government, even if you have dual citizenship. You may need to declare something the year you leave, but only income you earned in France. Since I left Ireland 10 years ago, I have not had to declare or pay anything to the Irish government. In some cases, where you have assets in France above a certain value, you would need to pay things like wealth tax, property tax, etc., but the amount you would need to accumulate is quite a lot. I’ve been researching it recently because I plan to move back to France, but I’ll have dual US/Irish citizenship and my salary is above the cut off for US taxes. It’s really complicated to figure out what would work best, it would be awesome if the US didn’t have citizenship-based taxation. Malheureusement c’est la vie 💸
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Immigrant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes!!! I'm an immigrant in France while being an expat(riot) of the US. They aren't contradictory statements :). This video is aimed for all Americans living abroad in countries around the world (that means they are immigrants in whichever country they moved to)
@@JordanPatrick Seems we agree on the terminology of "immigrants". So let's be honest; "ex-pats" was only invented to distinguish white immigrants from blacks and thus is inherently racist.
It has always angered me that Americans, the English and Australians, etc are expats yet anyone from African or the Eastern world are immigrants.
@@JordanPatrick Just a reminder that there is a word that puts everyone in the same basket. "Emigrant is a noun, meaning "one who leaves one's place of residence or country to live elsewhere."