Taxed when visiting the U.S.?

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    Taxed when visiting the U.S.?

    To all U.S. expats who have established HK as a tax home. I was just unpleasantly surprised that I have to pay taxes for business trips to the U.S. Is that really true? What IRS publication says that? Thanks for all help.


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    Yes - see Source of Earned Income on p16 of the IRS guide to tax for expats: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p54.pdf