The IRS’ Statistics of Income division has released the latest data on individual income tax returns (hat tip: TaxProf Blog). You can download the full PDF, or go to the list of tables. This report is mostly a dry list of figures slicing tax returns every which way. I’ve extracted some numbers which may be of interest to U.S. Persons abroad, and tried to come up with some theories to explain them. If you have any better theories, feel free to suggest them in the comments.
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Almost no U.S. Persons abroad properly report their foreign retirement accounts on Form 3520
Through a recent post at TaxProf Blog, I learned about the IRS’ Statistics of Income Bulletin. This finally gave me the lead on a figure in which I’d been interested for a long time: the number of Form 3520 filers. Unfortunately, the statistics are only released once every few years, and the next set aren’t scheduled for publication until December 2012. But you can see the figures for 1998, 2002, and 2006 here on the IRS website. The latest number: U.S. Persons filed a grand total of 1,952 Form 3520s and 3,819 Form 3520-As in 2006.
