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i cant find shit to do on mastodon. bluesky has the feeds which flung the door to folks i like to follow right open. its the better platform- id prefer it if it was decentralized but alas, like you said, thats where the herd wandered

well yeah

see?!!?

we live in two separate lemmy realities sir

careful, people on lemmy will attack you for saying anything other than bluesky is bad and that mastodon is the only way forward

you’re

godspeed

man I’m not going to read all that garbage. the fact is, your tax professional who didn’t know about the 2555 was an utter hack. someone else mentioning it to you is fortuitous for yourself, but its not the secret sacred hack you think it is. it’s understood by everyone else I know that lives outside the US. if you were paying taxes on your income to the US under 125k its because you hired an incompetent to help you with your taxes, or can’t read.

you’re honestly a strange person.

so, ive lived outside of the US for over 15 years and have filed taxes where i live and back in the US, where I file the 1040 and the 2555, because you have to. You don’t only fill out the 2555. I know a bunch of americans here and never once have I heard of the 2555 called a “FEIE Form” the way you’re describing it.

You said “you don’t pay tax on the first approx 125k”, and I pointed out that you absolutely do pay tax, just not to the US, you pay to the government in the country where you’re living. its not tax free, its just to the government of Australia or wherever you live instead of the US.

I also mentioned that people will pay tax on earned income under that 125k if youre in the states over 35 days, but that its prorated, so its not that you pay 100% of taxes all of a sudden, it’s what you would pay divided by 330 (if you were one day over, or 329 if you were over by two days, etc.)

just trying to expand and clarify on your post. apparently its your area of complete expertise and anyone saying anything is just googling shit to bask in the glory of your genius, though. stay cool

you know, it’s clear that you’re trying to be helpful to folks, but you come off like an asshole. just an fyi!

yeah ok the 2555 is the FEIE you mentioned.

its important to note that if youre within the US for more than that 35 day exemption, you start to pay taxes pro-rata.

I think you agreed with what I said just using different words about paying taxes where you do live- yes, you pay them directly to the government where you are domicle.

pretty sure you have to fill out the 2555 as well bro

you also have to pay tax where you are domicile, aka where you live

lol within a year or 2024?

I havent heard a peep a… oh its a star trek thing gotcha

need it for work dog

yeah i used to have a ubuntu dual boot machine for years. i just only use it for the program i need, web browsing etc is on the phone anymore

thanks

thanks

what do you do if you need to run an app thats windows exclusive? wine?

wow

so (and this may have changed, i used to go on irc mainly in the fuckin 90s) but you need a client, back in the day the big ones were mIRC and pIRCh. i am an mIRC loyalist myself.

it comes with a server list, you just double click on a server and itll connect you. then if you type /list it will list all the channels (rooms). you can see how many people are in each channel, and you can double click on the channel list to join one. then type away

half your subject is wildly out of focus bro