Tax Help

Can I mail in my tax forms to the US embassy in London? Or do I have to send everything to the Charlotte, NC office like I normally do?

Go to this site - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/us-citizens-and-resident-aliens-abroad - scroll down to Where to File

Thanks for that. I was wondering:

If I have excluded my foreign earned income and the money I earned in America while self employed was less than the standard deduction what does that mean?

Let's say I earned 8k through self employment in the US before I moved to the UK, but the standard deduction is 12k. Does that mean I get a 4k refund? Or do I just not owe any taxes? I'm confused by this bit.

Thanks for that. I was wondering:

If I have excluded my foreign earned income and the money I earned in America while self employed was less than the standard deduction what does that mean?

Let's say I earned 8k through self employment in the US before I moved to the UK, but the standard deduction is 12k. Does that mean I get a 4k refund? Or do I just not owe any taxes? I'm confused by this bit.

That would be nice wouldn’t it but I don’t think it works like that.  Here is how I think it roughly works:

Suppose you earned $40k in the UK and $8k through US self employment.  That is total income of $48k. The $12k deduction is taken from the $40k earned income leaving income tax on $28k of earned income plus income tax on $8k. The tax on the $28k is negated but the tax on the $8k is payable.

So I excluded 14kish of my UK earned income through 2555(EZ).  I made 8k in the US while self-employed.  The standard deduction is 12k.

So all of my income together is 22k, but the deduction works against all of my income (regardless if it has been excluded or not).  So there is 10k left, even though 2k of that has already been excluded? 

I just basically want to make sure I am only going to be expected to pay the tax on my self-employed US income, and not taxed on my UK income.  I filled out 2555(EZ) correctly but plugging in the numbers on other forms is worrying me as I feel like they are going to look at my total income and miss the fact that the income reported on the 2555(EZ) is included in my total income.

Just glancing at your numbers, and a blank 2555 plus Schedule I, it seems to me that your adjusted gross income (assuming the UK income of 14K-ish is excluded) will be $8K from your US self-employment. Your standard deduction is $12K, so your taxable income on line 10 of the 1040 would be $0. But I could easily be wrong as it's been years since I filled out a 2555, and the sol-called tax reform has generated new/different forms.

In any case, you don't get a refund for unused exemption, but neither would you pay any US tax for 2018 if your taxable income is $0. Again, this is off the top of my pointy little head, making assumptions on the info you provided. Someone with more knowledge and better reading ability than I will no doubt step in and help out.