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.

Comments

[maju]

That reminds me, I need to my FBAR sometime soon.

[mtbc]

At least that one's generally quick and easy, the main pain for me is that some of my banks don't make it easy to extract plausible maximum balances from over the year, they're just "here are your PDF statements" which I suppose these days one could throw AI at but I don't.