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This post is only useful for citizens and refugees from the USA (and the occupied Confederacy).
The big question is how do we keep our US$80,000 exclusion on earned income without running afoul of Uruguay’s new personal income tax. I wrote about that previously in Avoiding the US/UY tax trap…
As you may know, my “real […]

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There has been a lot of confusion in immigrant circles about exactly how the new personal income tax will impact on their lives here in Uruguay. As a public service, our attorney, Jun Federico Fischer of LVM Abogados & Consultores has written the folowing extremely valuable article and given me permission to publish it. […]

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After months of waiting, the printed version of “The Southron’s Guide to Living in Uruguay” is finally available online at: http://www.lulu.com/content/579686.
This is a full-sized, 8½ x 11 inch paper back, with color covers and black-and-white inside. Because of its large size is much easier to read than the pocket-sized edition produced locally.  The price for […]

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I have no preference for either party in the upcoming elections in the US. I have not voted since I left the US in the spirng of 1998. I am, by inclination a libertarian, but those urges are tempered by an inherent utilitarianism–I simply seek things that are the least intrusive, have […]

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One of the members of the SociedadSouthron.net forum was shocked when he realized that the new Uruguay personal income tax, due the middle of next year, will create a tax conundrum for US persons:

Uruguay will not levy income tax on any foreign “unearned income” such as dividends, pensions, annuities, and other income from investments, however
the […]

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