Did you get a notice from the IRS that your taxes were filed incorrectly, or that you owed money when indeed you were due money?
The same thing happened to me a few years ago. I received a notice from the IRS that I owed over US$2,300 in taxes. I was taken aback, because I was certain that with all my credits and rebates I was due thousands of dollars.
After two different phone calls with the IRS in America – which, mind you, totaled four long-distance hours from Thailand – I found out that my children’s social security numbers were somehow missing from my tax returns.
That, or an IRS agent failed to add them while entering my paper return into their system. (I filed a paper return because we had to apply for an ITIN for my Thai wife, and filing by paper was the only way to do that at that time.)
With that said, I was left with having to amend my taxes from Thailand so I could get the return I was actually owed.
This guide will show you what I did, and what you can do if you’re in the same position.
