The Expat tax program was great The Expat tax program was great. I approached filling out my US taxes with trepidation knowing full well the complexities involved in getting them correct and accepted. I had never done my US taxes previously. Their guided software program made the task much easier and, it seems, the IRS has found no issues with the return. In addition, I probably saved myself $800 (including the cost of using the software) this year by doing it myself.

Best experience I’ve had with US taxes I have been filing US taxes from Canada for more than 40 years. I’ve done pen and paper returns, used accountants, and used other programs. ExpatFile was the easiest experience I’ve had by far. The questions are clear, and unlike other programs, they don’t leave the user to try to figure out how foreign data fits onto American forms! And you don’t need a U.S. billing address to pay.

Second time using Expatfile This is my second year to use this system & overall, Expatfile's software is great & makes filing U.S. taxes from Canada so much easier & less time-consuming. Pushing buttons & filling in blanks speeds up the process. If there's even a slight frustration, it would be that there's still government phrases & definitions that aren't always easy to understand & could be explained in even simpler terms in order to insure questions are answered correctly. In spite of that, I will be using this helpful service again & know that the tax filing is done right & promptly!

This was amazingly easy with great customer service! This was amazingly easy after years of struggling to get Turbo Tax to understand the process of filing taxes in the US as someone living and working abroad and earning all their income abroad. After having a huge mistake made by Turbo Tax last year it was a relief to have another option to turn to and well worth the cost, and I got immediate assistance even on a weekend evening from customer service when I had trouble retrieving the correct data from my last return to e-file. Thanks for a great experience!

Lots of inadequacy with Expatfile I spent hours trying to navigate and get my taxes done properly. Unfortunately it was not until the end of the process that I found out that the software did not have the capability to fill out specific forms like 1099NEC and 1099MISC. That made the software think that my income was from a foreign source and it really complicated things and slapped some uneccesary forms in the mix. No place to claim vehicle expenses in a detail way and I just did not feel like it was filing my return the right way and I was right about that. I heard someone say Turbotax is terrible for filing expat returns and that is definitely not true. I switched to Turbotax online and it did a great job, answered all my questions, and guided me with unfamiliar things the whole time. It was even able to take care of the partial residence in the US with transitional things like health care premiums etc. I think that Expat might be good for very simple returns but be very careful because if you cannot enter the 1099 forms properly, it will think the all the your income is from foreign source just because you live in a foreign country. That would be a bumper because you will end up having to use the foreign earned income exclusion and forms like that. In Expat there was also no place to enter IRA contributions as well and people living overseas are entitled to that deduction. The refund that expatfile showed me was a lot less than what I got with Turbotax. Something like a $500 difference.