U.S. TAX PREP IN HCMC , BINH DUONG .?

Ciambella wrote:

If you want to do it now, what about TurboTax?  We've been using it on and off for the 10 years living outside of the States.

The key thing with TurboTax is being sure that you have the right version.  For anyone living in Vietnam, I would recommend buying the software and not utilizing the free online version.  You can buy and download it online but study carefully the matrix that shows which features each version has that might apply to you.  If you are still not sure you can email the company to check.  If you find that you need to upgrade a step, I believe that you can get the next level at a discounted price.  This happened to me once.  My tax situation was exactly the same but they changed which forms go with each version.  That particular year they gave a free upgrade but the next year I had to move up to the next  more expensive level.

I used TurboTax every year while living in Vietnam.  It can easily handle the Foreign Income Exclusion (Form 2555) that many, such as ESL teachers, will need if they earned wage income while living in Vietnam. 

Once you have the right version, if it's your first time using the software, you will want to use what they call Easy Step and answer every question they ask.  This tells the software what forms you will need.  It takes time, but it is at least as or maybe more thorough than the questions you will get at a tax chain like H&R Block.  In future years, if our situation is unchanged, you can skip the questions and go directly to the forms you need.