U.S. tax preparation for Americans living abroad
Universal Tax Professionals files U.S. federal returns for Americans overseas — Form 1040, FEIE (Form 2555), Foreign Tax Credit (Form 1116), FBAR (FinCEN 114), FATCA (Form 8938), and the more complicated returns most domestic CPAs decline to touch.
Contact Universal Tax Professionals →Filing U.S. taxes from abroad is a different sport than filing domestically. The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion alone — $132,900 for tax year 2026 — has exact-day-counting rules that most domestic preparers don’t bother to learn. Add FBAR, FATCA Form 8938, foreign pension reporting, PFIC rules on foreign mutual funds, and the alphabet soup of treaty positions, and you need a CPA who specializes in expats. Universal Tax Professionals does only this — Americans abroad — and they handle the full stack from federal filing to state-residency planning to amended returns.
Expat-only practice
They file thousands of returns a year for Americans in 100+ countries. They’ve seen your edge case before.
Full federal stack
1040, FEIE, FTC, FBAR, FATCA, foreign pension, PFIC, treaty positions, streamlined filing for late filers.
State exit strategy
They advise on California / Virginia / NY / NJ residency exits — where most domestic CPAs drop the ball.
When to use Universal Tax Professionals
Use them if you have any of: foreign-source income, foreign pensions, foreign mutual funds (PFIC concerns), a state-residency exit to manage, late or amended returns, or simply prefer to outsource the whole thing. They handle the FEIE / Foreign Tax Credit decision per year (often the FTC is better than FEIE despite what online calculators say), and they’ll set up your withholding so you don’t accidentally over-pay.
- Specialists in U.S. expat taxation with thousands of expat returns filed
- Federal + most states covered
- FBAR + FATCA included in standard expat packages
- Streamlined filing available if you’ve missed prior year returns
- Free initial consultation via the contact form
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