Mark Carroll's Journal

In fairness, it's maybe just four forms extra for being overseas and the redesign of the 1040 causes one of those but a couple other of the extra forms make the rest of them irrelevant! Here I am carefully converting currencies, moving and adding totals and whatnot to work out numbers from which I will then be instructed to subtract much larger numbers leaving zero. It wastes my time and theirs too. I wonder if they imagine that Americans with overseas funds are all wealthy or something. (If I were wealthy, I could afford somebody qualified to do the forms for me and I might actually owe tax!)