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got it. Jomtein 20150.

Jomtein postal code 20150, still waiting.

Americans spend more than $100 billion each year to prepare and file their returns, according to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. Direct File was developed as a method to help taxpayers avoid paying tax-prep and filing fees. The IRS spent about $13 million on the Direct File pilot in 2024, according a December report from the GAO. That funding came from money the tax agency received from the Inflation Reduction Act, which Mr. Biden signed into law in 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-direct-file-taxes-trump-elizabeth-warren-letter-democrats/

Are those sites private paid tax filing services ? Don't THey require US phone numbers and addresses? Its free for lower income but my yearly income is way above that. "Free File Fillable Forms" is a government site with no income limits, which worked for me for years up until a US phone number was required to create an account, the site should still works for you if you have a US phone number of which I don't. As of now OLT.com is the only site I can use. No US phone required, no income limits. Federal income return is free while they drew income from other services such as state income return.

you can use a pencil to file 1040 forms?

It's 2025. Hello?

OLT is the only site that I can e-file without a US phone number or address. Hope it will stay the same or i will have to file by mail.

CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/irs-chief-says-agency-plans-to-end-free-direct-file-program.html

Thanks.

just wait, as I've said. https://www.expatforum.com/threads/form-7162-proof-of-life.1552088/

Basically Thailand is imposing taxes on the foreign remittance of the lower income expats, while those with LTR visas are exempted. If I didn't have LTR-P I will not be here year round. Earlier this year I filed for the refund of bank interest withholding. After waited for months I went to the fourth floor of the JOmtein revenue department to check on it. The nice lady gave me a form to fill in, items on the form included a list of all foreign transfers. I said i have LTR visa non the info requested on this form is relevant. She then gave me a different form for LTR holders. Basically the same but fewer questions. I told here info requested are just irrelevant. I just wrote LTR VISA across the form and left. I think i will never see my refund. ANyone else been to the forth floor lately?

Another way to measure underlying growth is to average the results in the first and second quarters, Pantheon Macroeconomic said. That reveals the economy grew just 1.2% the first half of 2025, down from a nearly 3% pace the previous two years. Economy posts sturdy growth in 2nd quarter but tariffs again skew the numbers : https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/07/30/economy-growth-q2-data/85428251007/

I am going to stop reading this thread. May be will come back to read it when the new forms are arriving. more fun that way...