What Form 2350 Exclude 2023-2024

Hi everybody, I'm David McKeague with Greenback Expat Tax Services. Our question today is: I'm a bona fide resident of a foreign country, but I'm planning to work in the US fifty percent of the time for an overseas employer. Will I still qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion? Now, this is very tricky. If the IRS looks into who qualifies for the foreign earned income exclusion, either through the physical presence test or the bona fide resident test, it's done on a case-by-case basis. If you're planning on being in the United States for fifty percent of the time, there's a good chance that they won't view you as a bona fide resident of a foreign country, especially if you have a place to live in the United States. They might see it as you splitting time between the two countries. There's no hard and fast rule about how much time you can or can't spend in the United States if you're a bona fide resident. That said, fifty percent of the time, if you're working there and you also have a second residence set up in the United States, it will probably mean that you're not going to qualify as a bona fide resident. The IRS has many different examples of what doesn't qualify as a bona fide resident. For instance, if you spend 90 days in the United States doing training while your family is still abroad living in a foreign country, that type of situation would qualify you to continue to be considered a bona fide resident. However, if you're going to be living in the United States for half the time and you have a separate residence set up there, it's probably going to be difficult to claim that you're still a bona fide...