I am currently on H1b. Wife was on F1 OPT until Jan 2019 when she got her H1b as well. My wife came to USA in August 2014. Wife's employer did not withhold social security and medicare taxes. When using TurboTax and choosing "Married filing jointly" the tool calculates that we have to pay the social security and medicare taxes after uploading her W-2.
IRS website mentions:
"You and your spouse are treated, for federal income tax purposes, as residents for all tax years that the choice is in effect. However, for Social Security and Medicare tax withholding purposes, the nonresident alien may still be treated as a nonresident alien. Refer to Aliens Employed in the U.S. – Social Security Taxes."
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/nonresident-alien-spouse
Is there a way in TurboTax to indicate that my wife is a non-resident alien so that the taxes are calculated correctly?
Note that we filed jointly last year but did not use TurboTax, we went to a tax agent.
