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Wife and I received ours Monday, August 4 and they're also dated July 31. Hers either came early or on an earlier day and we didn't see it. Mine appeared in the PM. The bar code on the back of the form appears identical on both forms but the QR code by the address is different between the two.

Open your Bangkok bank smartphone app. Tap on Accounts at the bottom of the screen near the left edge. On the next screen tap on the Account number near the top and near the left edge. Scroll down on the next screen and tap on the words View all > Near the top you should see the <-- All transactions and 4 buttons with the month names on them Tap on the month when the transactions should have happened. If you wish to see transactions for earlier months press and hold your finger on the list of months and slide it to the left.

When we moved to CM from Vegas in 2020, we shipped a 20' container of household goods. We prepared a pretty general inventory. We ended up paying very little duty on only a stepladder, a box of general tools and a set of golf clubs, items that weren't considered household goods. Customs never opened our container for inspection. We used International Sea & Air Shipping as the logistics coordinator. They arranged the container rental, the pickup at our house and delivery to LA port, the spot on the containers ship, the customs clearance and the delivery to our door in CM. Things went smoothly except the US Post Office misplaced an Express Mail package containing crucial documents. That forced us to reschedule everything to a week later only 10 days before our initial departure date. The Thai end of the shipment was handled by Boonma that is headquartered in BKK. Perhaps they can advise you. https://www.boonma.com/ or https://internationalmoving.com/

The latest 'national hero' (😆😢) could buy TurboTax with his loose pocket change. Then, because he loves to safe Americans money he could donate it to the IRS.

AN should canvas Thailand schools to find those that offer remedial reading classes and offer them reduced advertising rates. Maybe the quality of posts would improve.

Yup.... back in the day they referred to that as "cutting off your nose to spite your face". Direct File would save the government too much money in the long run. Best to kill it now. Besides that..... Direct File wouldn't save the billionaires any money because it probably wouldn't support all the tax dodges they love. It would also free up so much staff that now the IRS could look more closely at the high income filers.

Since you file your own, I recommend you check out the spreadsheet I mentioned earlier... excellent tool.

I think I was 11 when my older sister taught me how to use one of those.... but after a dozen or so moves it seems to have missed the boat somewhere.

sure... I've done my own for 35 years... but I still like it better to file electronically.

OK... but do you remember pre-electronic-calculator methods? Friden perhaps?

And you can probably still find a spinning wheel to spin your own yarn!

@JimGant look at the drivel CATO produces.... this article is so full or errors and misuse of terminology. It clearly shows that they are not really up to speed on the subjects that are the basis of their articles. By Romin Boccia (a Peter Thiel acolyte): https://www.cato.org/blog/social-security-spending-adds-national-debt She writes articles that are extremely misleading. She comes as close to lying as possible in her articles about SS and the 'US debt'. Her goal is not to educate but to agitate the naive and bring them into the SS hater's camp. There 'oughta be a law!

There are still the non-governmental free filing options. Not all will accept expatriates but OLT will. I've used them since moving to CM. I also use a donation ware Excel spreadsheet by Glenn Reeves to do my tax planning... it's super good and is updated multiple times a year. https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home

95% emotion.... very little factual basis for their opinions. I never claimed what you stated. I have always agreed with the projections that OASI will be depleted by 2032/3. Stop lying about what I claimed. This quote (you didn't specify the source) is particularly erroneous: When Social Security needs to redeem these bonds to cover benefit payments, the Treasury must find the money somewhere other than from the trust fund—either by collecting more in taxes, redirecting other spending, or increasing the national debt. The implication is that Social Security’s cash-flow deficits directly contribute to the federal deficit. Each dollar redeemed from the Trust Fund is a dollar the Treasury must come up with, exacerbating our fiscal imbalance. CATO is 100% wrong claiming that SS's shortfall is "increasing the national debt". I've proved it many times but CATO must be paying you enough to ignore all else but their drivel. The redeeming of the OASI bonds is merely shifting financing from intragovernmental loan to public debt. Both those amounts are part of the NATIONAL DEBT... so obviously no increase in the NATIONAL DEBT. Face it, you've swallowed an untruth that is eating away at your brain. CATO is yelling fire... before any fire actually starts... but if Congress doesn't act... there will be a fire. The term NATIONAL DEBT is very well defined, but CATO misuses it. They should use the term 'public debt'

CATO's arguments are red herrings. There is a real crisis fast approaching in the funding of SS benefits. But.... the shift from intragovernmental loans to public debt is definitely not cause for alarm. Fixing the current actuarial weakness in SS financing is way, way more important. But, it seems that shouting about the debt shift makes them feel better. Unfortunately their articles have distracted people from the actual problem and caused much confusion about SS's impact on the national debt. The ONLY solution to stop the shift from intragovernmental to public debt is to fix the actuarial math..... so that is what CATO should be paying attention to. The impact from the shifting of debt will be very minimal.... besides... until Congress improves SS's financials, the Treasury's hands are tied.

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We don't need the extra definition of 'public debt' to know there is a cash flow problem.... it's already obvious. CATO is just using the term 'public debt' without bothering to clarify that its meaning is substantially different than NATIONAL DEBT. CATO's purpose is to create a sense of alarm amongst those who aren't really paying attention to the details. You fell for it.

I never said that the public debt does not rise when the SS benefits are paid. I ALWAYS state my case in terms of the NATIONAL DEBT. Why are you obsessed with the 'public debt'? It is useless to everyone except CATO and their co-conspirators. The US law limits the NATIONAL DEBT..... not the 'public debt'. What is the purpose to differentiate between 'public debt' and the NATIONAL DEBT? Ask your CATO buddies that question. The 'public debt' ideology is herring that is deeper red than any other I've encountered. You have yet to respond to my request to show any qualitative difference between 'public debt' and intergovernmental debt. All you say is CATO thinks there's a difference. Clearly you don't understand what they're saying if you just accept it as gospel. The actual gospel is spelled out by Treasury, SSA and Congressional web sites. Read it there.

The CATO article is their interpretation. The facts are very basic and you shouldn't need anyone's interpretation. Your post was accurate until you brought in CATO. They're simply wrong. The definition of the NATIONAL DEBT is very clear. It includes the 'public debt' and the intragovernmental debt. There is no room for opinion in that definition. The SSA still has a balance in the OASI trust fund..... no room for opinion in that. By law the Treasury holds the OASI trust fund in T-bill equivalents... no room for opinion on that. When the Treasury makes an SS benefit payment it is also reducing the balance in the OASI trust fund balance...... no room for opinion in that. Why do you need to hear CATO's opinions? This is extremely simple. Read the Treasury, SSA and Congressional web sites for the FACTS.

That has always been my position.... but I never talk about the 'public debt'. I always talk about the NATIONAL DEBT. Whether a Treasury debt is considered public or intragovernmental makes absolutely no difference to the Treasury, SSA or the taxpaying, tariff paying US residents. Those entities saddled with repaying any and ALL Treasury borrowings are unaffected by who receives the interest payments and the final capital repayment. The number with real significance is the NATIONAL DEBT.

100% true. It couldn't be handled as an electronic transfer because of the sanctions that were in place at the time of the payment. The nut jobs left a trail of drool a yard wide when they heard of the transfer taking place via cash.

Desperation .... only the truly pathetic sycophants try to resurrect an old trope that has been debunked more times than they've been laid.

Oh yeah.... substack.... LOL..... our dog could publish there and would probably garner more respect than any of the content creators favored by Red, Stiddle and the Nowhere guy.

I will.... after you can prove that intragovernmental debt is qualitatively different from the Treasury's borrowing from the public? Links to CATO opinions are not valid proof. You can locate all of my previous posts by hovering the mouse over my screen name and then click on 'Find Content'. Our most lengthy discussion about this occurred around the 1st week of July and you will find the links there.

An unbelievable statement. You may be qualified to consider taxation but you're not very good at simple accounting principles.