Weekend outcome

[mtbc]

I did not feel like thinking or moving at all this morning but, after enough resting, by this afternoon a little energy had accumulated. I did file my 2025 FBAR with FinCEN and went on to figure enough of my US taxes to discover that a combination of higher thresholds and lower income (I was made redundant last year then took a new job on a lower base salary) means that I should be able to skip itemizing deductions. This is great news because the calculation of pro-rated foreign tax paid on not-excluded income, and of mortgage interest paid (not easily obtained from Barclays), all converted from GBP to USD for when each happened, is quite a pain.

I also did some travel and attraction ticket planning for our coming trip to Paris, last time I was a tourist there we still had the Carte Orange. I even (finally) got around to responding properly to an e-mail from a relative. Maybe I'll yet get around to opening and filing pending mail.