The fastest way to reach me is the calendar: twenty minutes, free, with the Enrolled Agent who will prepare and sign your return. Email and phone reach me directly too. There is no contact form, no intake team and no callback queue — one person answers, and it is the same person who does the work.
A live calendar, not a request to be called back. You pick a time and get a calendar invitation with a short list of what to have to hand. This is the right channel for anything about your own return.
Open the calendarGood for sending a document, following up on work already under way, or asking something short. Please do not send tax documents or identifying numbers by ordinary email — the secure portal is set up once an engagement starts.
expattaxabroad@gmail.comA US number. Time zones being what they are, a booked call is more reliable than catching me live — but the line is real and it is mine.
+1 844 332-3315133 Cedar Chase Ln, Irmo, SC 29063, United States. The practice is US-based; the clients are not.
The calendar is still the faster route for anything about your own return — twenty minutes usually settles what an exchange of messages would take a week to circle. But if you would rather put it in writing first, this reaches me directly.
I read every message myself. There is no intake team, no ticket number and no autoresponder pretending to be me.
Because a form makes you write a message and then wait. The calendar gives you a time with the person who will prepare and sign the return, usually within a few days. Every other channel on this page reaches me directly.
A short factual one, yes. Anything that turns on your own facts — which election is better, whether a filing route is open to you — needs the documents and an engagement, because an answer given without them is a guess. The 20-minute call is free and is usually enough to tell you which it is.
Me. There is no intake team and no salesperson. Jorge I. Rivas, an IRS Enrolled Agent — 17 years in practice, 12 of them as an Enrolled Agent, and the credential is publicly verifiable in the IRS Return Preparer directory.
Booked calls happen at the time you choose. For email I aim to reply within one business day, allowing for the time difference. [TBD — confirm the response-time commitment before this is published as a promise.]
Not by email. Once an engagement starts you get a secure document portal, and everything — identifying numbers, income statements, account balances — travels through that instead.
Bring last year's return if you have one, your host countries and your travel dates. You'll leave the call knowing the filing route, the forms and the fee.
An IRS Enrolled Agent working only on US tax for Americans living abroad. I prepare and sign every return myself — 17 years in practice, 12 of them as an Enrolled Agent.