Hire Virtual Assistants for Foreign Account Compliance Consultant

ZERO MANAGEMENT OVERHEAD • UP TO 70% SAVINGS

Streamline FBAR, FATCA & Cross-Border Client Files with a Managed Foreign Account Compliance VA

Eliminate endless hours spent converting foreign bank statement currencies at US Treasury year-end rates, extracting peak balances for FinCEN Form 114, organizing Form 8938 asset tiers, tracking W-8BEN-E withholding entities, and preparing Streamlined Filing dossiers. SageDoer equips international tax consultants, CPAs, and cross-border wealth advisors with dedicated back-office ops supervised by an experienced Project Manager—at 0% platform markups.

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Dedicated PM Included at no extra charge
Strict FinCEN/IRS NDA Airtight financial secrecy
Active Work Only Zero idle hours billed
Supervised Cross-Border Command

Foreign Compliance Ops Hub

Ops Active
FBAR Peak Balance Extraction & FX Conversions Auditing multi-currency statements across Swiss, UK, Singaporean & European banks to pinpoint max balances and apply Treasury Bureau rates.
FATCA Form 8938 & PFIC Asset Triage Classifying foreign mutual funds, SICAVs, pensions, and foreign entity holdings for Form 8621 and Form 8938 threshold testing.
Streamlined SFOP / SDOP Dossier Assembly Collating 6-year FBAR histories, 3-year amended 1040-NR returns, and non-willful narrative affidavits for partner sign-off.
Managed Rates From $6 / hr (Full-Time)
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CROSS-BORDER COMPLIANCE STACK

Proficient in International Tax Suites, BSA E-Filing & Client Portals

Zero training lag. Our virtual assistants understand multi-currency conversions, FinCEN e-filing batch preparation, CRS common reporting structures, and secure expatriate client portals.

FinCEN BSA E-Filing Batch FinCEN Form 114 Prep
CCH Axcess / ProSystem International 1040/8938 Modules
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE FATCA & CRS Entity Classification
US Treasury FX Engine Official Year-End Exchange Rates
TaxDome / SmartVault Encrypted Client Document Hubs
Drake Tax / UltraTax CS Expat Schedule B & 8938 Worksheets
Excel & Power Query Statement Ledger Reconciliation
MyExpatTaxes / TaxScouts Overseas American Intake Sync
DocuSign / Adobe Sign Form 2848 / 8879-F Authorization
1Password / Bitwarden Encrypted Tax Vault Credentials
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

What Can Your Foreign Account Compliance VA Take Off Your Desk?

Free your senior international tax partners, EAs, and CPAs to focus on complex treaty positions, expatriation planning, IRS penalty abatement negotiations, and cross-border client acquisition.

FBAR (FinCEN 114) Statement Audit & Peak Value Mapping

Accurately identify and convert peak account balances across multiple foreign jurisdictions.

  • Sifting 12 months of multi-currency statements across banks, brokerages, and pensions
  • Pinpointing the single highest daily balance for every individual foreign account
  • Converting local currencies to USD using official US Treasury Bureau Year-End rates
  • Pre-populating FinCEN 114 XML batch data (financial institution names, IBANs, branch addresses)

FATCA Form 8938 Specified Asset Scheduling

Differentiate between FBAR and Form 8938 reporting thresholds for domestic vs. expat filers.

  • Testing asset aggregate balances against $50k/$100k (single) and $200k/$400k (expat) thresholds
  • Cataloging foreign partnership interests, non-US deferred comp, and foreign life insurance cash values
  • Cross-referencing foreign interest and dividend income reported on Schedule B
  • Drafting comprehensive Form 8938 Part I, II, and V schedules for CPA review

Streamlined Filing Procedures (SFOP / SDOP) Packaging

Assemble complex voluntary disclosure packets for delinquent non-willful taxpayers.

  • Packaging 6 consecutive prior years of delinquent FBAR filings via BSA E-Filing
  • Organizing 3 prior years of Form 1040/1040-X amended returns with international schedules
  • Compiling required IRS Form 14653 / Form 14654 certification statements
  • Assembling certified proof of foreign physical presence (330-day tests for SFOP eligibility)

W-8BEN / W-8BEN-E & FATCA Withholding Triage

Ensure valid foreign status declarations and treaty withholding eligibility across entities.

  • Validating Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 status designations on Form W-8BEN-E
  • Checking Global Intermediary Identification Numbers (GIINs) against the IRS FATCA FFI list
  • Reviewing treaty limitation-on-benefits (LOB) provisions for reduced dividend/royalty rates
  • Tracking 3-year statutory expiration cycles for recurring foreign payee documentation

PFIC Identification & Form 8621 Data Compilation

Flag toxic passive foreign investment companies before costly excess distribution penalties hit.

  • Auditing foreign brokerage statements for foreign mutual funds, ETFs, and SICAVs
  • Extracting annual capital gains, reinvested dividends, and return-of-capital distributions
  • Preparing Section 1291 excess distribution worksheets or QEF election statements
  • Compiling cost-basis ledgers and holding period timelines for every separate fund holding

IRS Notice Triage & Reasonable Cause Audit Binders

Equip your tax controversy practice with pristine documentation binders for IRS inquiries.

  • Logging incoming IRS CP2000, Letter 5085C, and FinCEN inquiry notices
  • Pulling and cataloging historical BSA filing confirmation receipts and submission tracking IDs
  • Structuring chronological reasonable cause exhibit binders for penalty waiver requests
  • Tracking statutory 30-day and 90-day appeal petition response deadlines
WHY SAGEDOER

Why Managed Outperforms Freelance Marketplaces for Cross-Border Tax

Hiring unvetted freelancers on Upwork or Fiverr exposes your firm to catastrophic confidentiality leaks, missed tax deadlines, and zero quality control. SageDoer delivers a fully supervised compliance engine with zero management overhead.

Dedicated Single Point of Contact

You interact strictly with your assigned Project Manager. Send raw multi-currency bank statements, client tax organizers, or Streamlined Filing notes via Slack, WhatsApp, or email—your PM assigns, audits for calculation accuracy, and reports completed files ready for CPA sign-off.

Strict Tax Practice NDA & PII Security

Foreign account numbers, SSNs, ITINs, offshore entity structures, and private client net worth figures are safeguarded under legally binding NDAs and 256-bit encrypted credential vaults with mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Zero Platform Fees or Markups

No platform subscription cuts, no contractor buy-out ransoms, and no hidden markups. You pay strictly for actual working hours with transparent, auditable time logs showing exact account files completed.

Instant Cross-Trained Standby

Never miss an October 15 FBAR extension deadline or June 15 expat tax cutoff because an assistant is sick. Our internal cross-trained team steps in immediately with zero workflow interruption or retraining headaches for your international practice.

SIDE-BY-SIDE EVALUATION

How SageDoer Compares to Traditional Platforms

Stop wasting $250+/hr billable consulting time managing unverified overseas freelancers. Here is how SageDoer compares directly.

Feature Traditional Platforms (Upwork / Fiverr) The Smart Choice: SageDoer
Platform & Management Fees Up to 40% in hidden markups, bidding, and memberships 0% Hidden Fees. Pay strictly for hours worked.
Daily Team Management You must juggle and supervise multiple freelancers Dedicated Project Manager acts as your single point of contact
Quality Assurance Hit-or-miss talent with unverified credentials Internally vetted, rigorously trained premium experts
Hiring & Deployment Speed Endless cycles of interviewing and testing candidates Instant delegation. We immediately assign the right specialist.
Billing & Invoicing Complex, multi-freelancer invoices with currency headaches Simple, unified, centralised USD invoicing
Staff Turnover & Replacements Start the hiring and training process all over again Seamless internal replacements with zero workflow disruption
STREAMLINED ONBOARDING

How Our Managed Service Works

A simple, battle-tested 4-phase framework designed to get FBAR data extraction, 8938 worksheets, and expat client files processed swiftly without draining your practice.

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Phase 1

Submit Requirements

Share your specific foreign compliance caseload needs with us to get started. Choose your preferred channel to reach out: Email, Contact Form, WhatsApp.

Connect within 4 hours
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Phase 2

Finalise the Deal

Our dedicated project manager will promptly get back to you to review your volume, software stack (TaxDome, CCH, Drake), and finalise the partnership details.

Clear Scope & Protocols
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Phase 3

Expert Execution

Your project manager takes full charge of operations, getting the statement audits and FBAR pre-populating done efficiently through our vetted compliance team.

Quality-Checked Output
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Phase 4

Pay Only for Output

We log and charge exclusively for the virtual assistant's actual working time. Your dedicated project manager's supervision is completely free.

0% Management Overhead
PREDICTABLE PRICING

Transparent Rates. No Hidden Markups.

Flexible part-time or full-time support plans designed to scale alongside your tax season deadlines, corporate year-ends, and expatriate voluntary disclosure caseloads.

Flexible Support

Part-Time

Ideal for solo international CPAs, independent expat tax preparers, and boutique foreign compliance advisors.

$7 / hour
20 Hours Per Week • Est. $560 USD / Month (4 Weeks)
  • Pay only for hours of pure work
  • Dedicated Project Manager included
  • Free management supervision
  • Zero setup or onboarding fees
  • No monthly membership charges
  • Weekly consolidated productivity report
Get Started with Part-Time
MAXIMUM VALUE
High Output & Scale

Full-Time

For multi-partner international tax accounting firms, cross-border wealth managers & high-volume expat practices.

$6 / hour
40 Hours Per Week • Est. $960 USD / Month (4 Weeks)
  • Pay only for hours of pure work
  • Dedicated Project Manager included
  • Free management supervision
  • Zero setup or onboarding fees
  • No monthly membership charges
  • Priority turnaround & instant standby replacement
Scale with Full-Time
VERIFIED FEEDBACK

Trusted by International CPAs & Foreign Account Specialists

See how cross-border tax practices reclaimed 20+ billable hours every week and eliminated October 15 filing bottlenecks.

"Auditing Swiss and Japanese bank statements for 85 high-net-worth clients used to consume our entire September. Our SageDoer VA extracts peak balances, applies Treasury year-end FX rates, and preps our FinCEN 114 batches with 100% accuracy."

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Andrew K., CPA Managing Partner, Apex Cross-Border Tax Geneva

"Packaging Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures (SFOP) was creating a massive backlog in our practice. Our VA organizes the 6-year FBAR histories and Form 14653 packets flawlessly. Case turnaround dropped by 65%."

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Stephanie L., EA Founder, ExpatTax Solutions London

"The free dedicated Project Manager is what sets SageDoer worlds apart from Upwork. I drop client tax organizers into TaxDome, and my PM coordinates the entire FBAR and Form 8938 asset breakdown. Flawless execution."

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Richard M., JD, LL.M. International Tax Counsel, Singapore

"Client financial data confidentiality is non-negotiable for my practice. SageDoer signed our strict NDA, and our VA works strictly inside our encrypted 1Password vaults and secure TaxDome client silos."

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Natasha T., CPA Principal, Global Expatriate Compliance NYC

"Auditing Swiss and Japanese bank statements for 85 high-net-worth clients used to consume our entire September. Our SageDoer VA extracts peak balances, applies Treasury year-end FX rates, and preps our FinCEN 114 batches with 100% accuracy."

AK
Andrew K., CPA Managing Partner, Apex Cross-Border Tax Geneva

"Packaging Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures (SFOP) was creating a massive backlog in our practice. Our VA organizes the 6-year FBAR histories and Form 14653 packets flawlessly. Case turnaround dropped by 65%."

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Stephanie L., EA Founder, ExpatTax Solutions London
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Realistic Answers for Foreign Account Compliance Professionals

Clear details about international tax boundaries, client bank data security, BSA E-Filing protocols, and operational procedures.

No. Our Virtual Assistants provide professional administrative, mathematical, document aggregation, and compliance workflow execution. They are not licensed CPAs, Enrolled Agents (EAs), or Tax Attorneys, and they do not sign returns as paid preparers under Circular 230 or provide legal tax positions. Instead, they handle the time-draining back-office heavy lifting: auditing multi-currency foreign bank statements, pinpointing peak balances, applying US Treasury Year-End exchange rates, entering data into BSA E-Filing templates or Form 8938 worksheets, and assembling Streamlined Voluntary Disclosure dossiers. All final filings remain under your licensed professional review and signature.
Foreign financial compliance involves exceptionally sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and banking data. All SageDoer team members operate under legally binding non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) tailored for legal and tax practices. We advocate for role-based permissions (such as restricted preparer access in TaxDome, SmartVault, or CCH without master billing or executive administrative privileges) and sharing credentials through encrypted enterprise vaults like 1Password or Bitwarden with mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA). Our team never requires direct online banking login credentials—only sanitized client statements or exports.
Unlike freelance platforms where you waste billable client hours micromanaging individual contractors, SageDoer pairs you with an experienced Project Manager at zero extra cost. You drop client tax organizers, raw statement PDFs, or Streamlined Filing instructions via Slack, WhatsApp, or Email. Your PM assigns tasks to our skilled compliance VAs, audits the foreign exchange calculations against official US Treasury rates, verifies IBAN/account number accuracy, and delivers completed worksheets on schedule. You are billed strictly for the VA's active working hours.
Typically within 24 to 48 hours. After an intro scoping session with your dedicated Project Manager to align on your practice software (e.g., TaxDome, CCH Axcess, Drake Tax, FinCEN BSA E-Filing), statement conversion spreadsheets, and folder naming hierarchies, we immediately assign the best VA from our vetted internal team and start clearing your FBAR and 8938 backlog.
Because SageDoer is a managed service rather than an unmanaged freelance directory, your dedicated PM maintains thoroughly documented standard operating procedures (SOPs) for your firm. In the event of illness or scheduled leave, a cross-trained internal substitute steps in immediately with zero workflow interruption or retraining required on your part, guaranteeing critical statutory filing cutoffs are never compromised.
None. There are zero onboarding fees, zero recruitment charges, and no long-term lock-in contracts. You pay strictly for actual working hours recorded in transparent, auditable time logs. You can scale between part-time and full-time or adjust support hours as your seasonal expatriate tax deadlines (April 15, June 15, October 15) and corporate year-ends demand.
TALK TO OUR TEAM

Reclaim 20+ Billable Hours for High-Yield Tax Advisory

Tell us about your upcoming FBAR caseload, foreign statement conversion backlog, or Streamlined Voluntary Disclosure packaging volume. Connect directly with our project management team through your preferred channel.

Request Your Dedicated PM

Specify your foreign compliance caseload and operational requirements. Our Project Manager will respond within 4 business hours.