The San Francisco Bay Area is heavily international. Many people are from China, Korea, Germany, Japan, Canada, and more. This then exposes them to “double taxation.” They may have to pay taxes both on income here, and income from their home country. They may even have to pay taxes in more than that, depending upon how much income they have from different sources.
Even in the US, many people in the Bay Area have income from other states because they may own a rental property, or perhaps have a business which has branches elsewhere. All of this means that taxes can become very complicated indeed. (This is called multi-state taxation).
Fortunately, at Safe Harbor we have got you covered with our Bay Area expatriate tax preparation services. We deal with clients from many different countries and the tax situation of each and every one of those clients is different. What that means to you as a client is that we have to handle a wide range of different tax requirements, compared with another CPA who may only have clients who live and work in California, or perhaps even only in San Francisco itself.
No matter, we have the knowledge that you require for Bay Area expatriate tax preparation services. However, we also have to put our hands up and admit that we do not understand the rules that apply in every other country across the globe. Of course, we don’t.
CONTACTS!
But what we do have is CONTACTS! We work with many other firms of accountants in several different countries. What that means is that if you have income from a country with which we are not familiar, we can get help from our contacts in that country who do understand the tax laws there.
Of course, that works the other way around as well, because when they have questions about the tax requirements in the US, we can help them out with that. So, between us we can provide Bay Area expatriate tax preparation services for all of our clients as well as all of theirs.
As far as you are concerned, whether you are a US resident with income from overseas, an overseas resident with income here, here on a student visa, working here on a short-term basis, or any other combination of those situations, at Safe Harbor, we’ve got you covered! So, in effect, you can get everything done under one roof.
Needless to say, our overall aim, wherever you have income and have to pay taxes, is to ensure that you pay not a cent, penny, peso, euro, lek, zloty, or anything else, more than the laws of each respective country state that you have to pay.
