stimpy writes:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As I recall (I'm not a CPA), U.S. law allows expats to only pay taxes on the first $80K.</font>
In my experience, the dollar amount is correct, but as
jja34-1 says, you only pay U.S. taxes on any amount
after the first 80 grand.