expat taxes

I'm an expat, living abroad and I just recently learned that I have to report my income to the IRS. Thankfully, this is the first year I've ever earned money, the other years I've been abroad I've been a student, so I don't have several years of back taxes/fees waiting for me. I just have to file for 2009, and according to the people I've talked to in the IRS, thanks to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion I have nothing to worry about in terms of late fees on this years taxes.

Happy that I won't have to pay anything, I rush off to to file my taxes online, only to find that I can't file my taxes online because I live abroad and don't have an American address. Not a single site that the IRS works with to e-file, will work with a foreign address. Now I have to go all the way to the US consulate, cause I don't have a printer, and pick up all the tax forms, fill them out and mail them off.

This is so stupid. First of all, why do I have to file US taxes at all? I don't live in the US and work for a foreign company. Second, if I have to file, why do I have to file in the slowest, most hassled way possible? Why can't I file online like a normal person?
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I'm an expat as well.... Have had to file US tax returns since I left 6 years ago. As long as you are an American citizen, you will have to file tax returns....
 
I am not a US citizen.

I don't live in in the US.

Yet the IRS taxes me the maximum of 30% off my earnings because I am dealing with an American company. That sucks BIG TIME! It seems to be that the IRS/US government is determined to squeeze every penny they can out of anybody!
 

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