Overseas work and taxes

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Originally Posted by Cletus3173

I worked in Brazil a few years back. I was told that you could only be in the US for 29 days in a year. Brazil was tax free for me, but you could only be in country for a total of 182 days or the tax would kick in. Being expat would run the tax around 68%.

I lived in Brazil for almost 7 years and paid taxes there. I also paid taxes in the US. I think the number of days you can be in the US is actually 35. I normally only spent 25-30 to visit my family and home office.
At the end of the year I received almost all of the taxes I paid in the US back. Which was more than enough to cover my Brazil taxes and have a huge bonus left over. It was worth it for me to stay out of the US but most can't be away from the US 330 days a year.