Edit: for those actually interested in doing something, this group looks to be legit: http://americansabroad.org/
When it's sufficiently interesting, politics is ok, the problem is propaganda and discussing values that are a matter of taste.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120530 is a pretty good summary of why I don't want to see politics here. I'll also add the "bullshit asymmetry principle": http://ordrespontane.blogspot.it/2014/07/brandolinis-law.htm... - which tends to become important as these discussions grow. It's super easy to say some inane thing, but to properly refute it requires research, links, statistics, reason... it's difficult. I don't think "good political discussions" are a stable state, either - it's something that might happen for a period of time, but then decay sets in.
No, I found a good guy who really knows what he's doing up in Vicenza. But between his fee, and a day off work to go see him and get all my US stuff in order... it does start to add up.
> I would imagine any tax software should be able
Maybe, but I doubt it does it nearly as well as a competent accountant, who, for instance, knows how to read an Italian tax filing, and knows the details of the US-Italy tax treaty.