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I have a question on United States Taxes. When living in Costa Rica I know I will have to pay US taxes on my pension. If I live Costa Rica year round will I get most of the taxes I paid back or do I still have to support the illegals back here in the states.:)
[quote=”dmh57″]I have a question on United States Taxes. When living in Costa Rica I know I will have to pay US taxes on my pension. If I live Costa Rica year round will I get most of the taxes I paid back or do I still have to support the illegals back here in the states.:)[/quote]
That all depends on the amount of your pension plus the amount of any other additional income you receive and any deductions you may have to reduce your taxable income.
U.S. citizens are liable for U.S. federal income taxes regardless of the place of their residence whether in the U.S. or outside. You have a right to all the benefits of your citizenship and the obligation we all have to pay your share for them.
[quote=”maravilla”]i hope you have legal residency in costa rica and are not one of the illegal aliens.[/quote]
When I go I will I do things the right way. My wife was born and raised in Costa Rica. She came to America legally and not once did she leach off of the US government.
[quote=”maravilla”]i hope you have legal residency in costa rica and are not one of the illegal aliens.[/quote]
When I go I will I do things the right way. My wife was born and raised in Costa Rica. She came to America legally and not once did she leach off of the US government. This is one of the problems we have in my country is that they have turned their backs on senior citizens and cut programs and open their arms to people come in here illegally. They are afraid to offend someone and im not, what’s right is right. I served my country for 8 years and paid taxes for over 40 years.
[quote=”maravilla”]i hope you have legal residency in costa rica and are not one of the illegal aliens.[/quote]
OK, I’ll bite…..
I just returned from the States yesterday and received a 90 day stamp from an immigration officer representing the Republic of Costa Rica.I do not have residency – how does that make me an illegal alien?
[quote=”costaricabill”][quote=”maravilla”]i hope you have legal residency in costa rica and are not one of the illegal aliens.[/quote]
OK, I’ll bite…..
I just returned from the States yesterday and received a 90 day stamp from an immigration officer representing the Republic of Costa Rica.I do not have residency – how does that make me an illegal alien?[/quote]
Whoa I started this asking about American taxes and what is going on in America you got this all twisted.
[quote=”dmh57″][quote=”costaricabill”][quote=”maravilla”]i hope you have legal residency in costa rica and are not one of the illegal aliens.[/quote]
OK, I’ll bite…..
I just returned from the States yesterday and received a 90 day stamp from an immigration officer representing the Republic of Costa Rica.I do not have residency – how does that make me an illegal alien?[/quote]
Whoa I started this asking about American taxes and what is going on in America you got this all twisted.
[/quote]Wow I see people don’t know how read English and they miss understood the question I see dmh57 … Question is about taxes in the Spanish trans(la pregunta es aserca de IMPUESTOS) please read or get some one else with more knowledge on English before post comments … this is a tourist will like to live in Costa Rica, as a Costarican Citizen I will like to give and answer but I been living out of my Country for more then 20years and Costa Rica law has been change allot, hope someone else with better knowledge can give the correct answer GOOD LUCK 😀
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Wow I see people don’t know how read English and they miss understood the question I see dmh57 … Question is about taxes in the Spanish trans(la pregunta es aserca de IMPUESTOS) please read or get some one else with more knowledge on English before post comments … this is a tourist will like to live in Costa Rica, as a Costarican Citizen I will like to give and answer but I been living out of my Country for more then 20years and Costa Rica law has been change allot, hope someone else with better knowledge can give the correct answer GOOD LUCK :D[/quote]
Uh, if you take time to read the first 2 responses to his original post, you will see that he received his answer.
1. David McMurray offered the second response: “U.S. citizens are liable for U.S, federal income taxes regardless of the place of their residence whether in the U.S. or outside. You have a right to all the benefits of your citizenship and the obligation we all have to pay your share for them.”
David’s comment is an affirmative statement explaining that it is every citizen’s obligation to file and pay his/her fair share of taxes. I believe his comment was intended to not only answer the original post, but to accurately clarify my initial response, which was:
2. from me – “That all depends on the amount of your pension plus the amount of any other additional income you receive and any deductions you may have to reduce your taxable income.”
I should have been more precise and said it this way – yes, you still have to file a U.S. tax return no matter what the total amount is of your pension + any additional income you may earn, but the amount of taxes that you are ultimately obligated to pay depends not only on your gross income but also on the legal exemptions and deductions you are allowed to apply that reduce that total amount (“gross income”), the reduced amount then becomes your “taxable income”. Only after determining taxable income will you know if you owe taxes and if so, how much, or if you will be getting a refund.
Then, if you do owe and you do pay, you have no direct determination of how the government chooses to spend your tax “contribution”.
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OK, I’ll bite…..
I just returned from the States yesterday and received a 90 day stamp from an immigration officer representing the Republic of Costa Rica.I do not have residency – how does that make me an illegal alien?[/quote]
It doesn’t make you an illegal alien at all, CRBill. It makes you a legal tourist for the remainder of those ninety days. And during that time, and should you be granted another tourist visa, you will have all the legal rights and protections of any other tourist which is to say . . . [b]none[/b].
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