Expat Tax · ranked
Filing a standard US return from abroad
For US citizens abroad with salary income and a foreign bank account, whose annual filing is a federal return and an FBAR.
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- Federal return with FBAR
- $119
- Federal return
- $119
- FBAR
- Instructions only; you file it
- Who prepares it
- Software; you prepare it
- Price basis
- Flat
- Streamlined catch-up
- $699
- Federal return with FBAR
- $175
- Federal return
- $175
- FBAR
- Included
- Who prepares it
- Software; you prepare it
- Price basis
- Flat
- Streamlined catch-up
- $875
- Federal return with FBAR
- $358
- Federal return
- $259
- FBAR
- $99 extra
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a tax advisor
- Price basis
- Starting at
- Streamlined catch-up
- Not published
- Federal return with FBAR
- $370Calculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return
- $285Verified against the source Oct 2026
- FBAR
- $85 for up to 5 accountsVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a CPA firmVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Price basis
- Base feeVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Streamlined catch-up
- $1,475Calculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return with FBAR
- $508Calculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return
- $389Verified against the source Oct 2026
- FBAR
- $119 per FBARVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a CPAVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Price basis
- Flat fee (exclusion route; tax credit $165 extra)Verified against the source Oct 2026
- Streamlined catch-up
- Not publishedCalculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return with FBAR
- $535
- Federal return
- $450
- FBAR
- $85 extra
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a tax professional
- Price basis
- Base price
- Streamlined catch-up
- $1,450
- Federal return with FBAR
- $600Calculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return
- $500Verified against the source Oct 2026
- FBAR
- $100 per FBAR, any number of accountsVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a tax professionalVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Price basis
- Flat feeVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Streamlined catch-up
- $1,800Calculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return with FBAR
- $690
- Federal return
- $565
- FBAR
- $125 extra (up to 5 accounts)
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a tax professional
- Price basis
- Flat
- Streamlined catch-up
- $1,750
- Federal return with FBAR
- $750Calculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return
- $650Verified against the source Oct 2026
- FBAR
- From $100 per FBARVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a tax professionalVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Price basis
- Starting fromVerified against the source Oct 2026
- Streamlined catch-up
- Not publishedCalculated from attributes verified Oct 2026
- Federal return with FBAR
- $800
- Federal return
- $800
- FBAR
- Included, any number of accounts
- Who prepares it
- Prepared by a tax professional
- Price basis
- Starting at
- Streamlined catch-up
- $1,860
Every figure here was checked against the provider’s own page in Sep 2026, except where a date is shown against the figure. Figures are rechecked at least every 12 months; one past that is marked “Recheck due”.
date checked against the provider’s own pagecalculated; oldest date among its inputspast its recheck window
Segments show the tier reached, not the score:BasicStandardStrongExcellent
This is the same verified dataset as the expat tax table, re-ordered on one column. The overall score is still shown, and it does not order this page — which is why the leader here can differ from the leader there.
Scoring weights
rubric 2026.1
- Federal return with FBAR100%
Set once per vertical and versioned. Changing a weight is a logged version bump, not routine upkeep — methodology.
Verification state
- Dated fields in this table
- 70
- Oldest check
- Sep 2026
- Most recent check
- Oct 2026
- Recheck window
- 365 days
- Past that window
- 0
What this ranking does not say
One column answers one question. It is not a verdict on the products underneath it.
- Ranking first here means leading on federal return with fbar alone. Where the overall score disagrees, the difference is the weighting, published in full beside this table.
- Ranking last here is not a warning. A product can be the right choice for something this column does not measure — its own page says what its figures do and do not capture.