Publication 521 - Moving Expenses - 2002 Page 8

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Moves to Locations in the United
Moves to Locations Outside the
States
United States
If you meet the requirements under Who Can Deduct
To deduct expenses for a move outside the United States,
Moving Expenses, earlier, you can deduct expenses for a
you must be a United States citizen or resident alien who
move to the area of a new main job location within the
moves to the area of a new place of work outside the
United States or its possessions. Your move may be from
United States and its possessions. You must meet the
one United States location to another or from a foreign
requirements under Who Can Deduct Moving Expenses,
country to the United States.
earlier.
Deductible expenses. If your move is to a location
Household goods and personal effects. You can de-
outside the United States and its possessions, you can
duct the cost of packing, crating, and transporting your
deduct the following expenses.
household goods and personal effects and those of the
members of your household from your former home to your
The cost of moving household goods and personal
new home.
effects from your former home to your new home.
If you use your own car to move your things, see Travel
The cost of traveling (including lodging) from your
by car, earlier.
former home to your new home.
You can include the cost of storing and insuring house-
hold goods and personal effects within any period of 30
The cost of moving household goods and personal
consecutive days after the day your things are moved
effects to and from storage.
from your former home and before they are delivered to
The cost of storing household goods and personal
your new home.
effects while you are at the new job location.
You can deduct any costs of connecting or discon-
necting utilities required because you are moving your
The first two items were explained earlier under Moves to
household goods, appliances, or personal effects.
Locations in the United States. The last two items are
discussed below.
You can deduct the cost of shipping your car and your
household pets to your new home.
Moving goods and effects to and from storage. You
You can deduct the cost of moving your household
can deduct the reasonable expenses of moving your per-
goods and personal effects from a place other than your
sonal effects to and from storage.
former home. Your deduction is limited to the amount it
would have cost to move them from your former home.
Storage expenses. You can deduct the reasonable ex-
penses of storing your household goods and personal
Example. Paul Brown is a resident of North Carolina
effects for all or part of the time the new job location
and has been working there for the last 4 years. Because
remains your main job location.
of the small size of his apartment, he stored some of his
furniture in Georgia with his parents. Paul got a job in
Moving expenses allocable to excluded foreign
Washington, DC. It cost him $300 to move his furniture
income. If you live and work outside the United States,
from North Carolina to Washington and $1,100 to move his
you may be able to exclude from income part or all of the
furniture from Georgia to Washington. If Paul shipped his
income you earn in the foreign country. You may also be
furniture in Georgia from North Carolina (his former home),
able to claim a foreign housing exclusion or deduction. If
it would have cost $600. He can deduct only $600 of the
you claim the foreign earned income or foreign housing
$1,100 he paid. The amount he can deduct for moving his
exclusion, you cannot deduct the part of your moving
furniture is $900 ($300 + $600).
expenses that relates to the excluded income.
You cannot deduct the cost of moving furniture
Publication 54, Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and Resi-
!
you buy on the way to your new home.
dent Aliens Abroad, explains how to figure the part of your
moving expenses that relates to excluded income. You can
CAUTION
get the publication from most United States Embassies
and consulates, or see How To Get Tax Help at the end of
Travel expenses. You can deduct the cost of transporta-
this publication.
tion and lodging for yourself and members of your house-
hold while traveling from your former home to your new
home. This includes expenses for the day you arrive.
Nondeductible Expenses
You can include any lodging expenses you had in the
area of your former home within one day after you could no
You cannot deduct the following items as moving ex-
longer live in your former home because your furniture had
penses.
been moved.
You can deduct expenses for only one trip to your new
Any part of the purchase price of your new home.
home for yourself and members of your household. How-
Car tags.
ever, all of you do not have to travel together or at the same
time. If you use your own car, see Travel by car, earlier.
Driver’s license.
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