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Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Yes, you can file and pay taxes by using TurboTax for the US residency portion.  

 

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Per IRS, if you left the U.S. to re-establish your residence in your home country after you met the Substantial Presence Test SPT, your residency termination date is generally December 31 of the year you leave. (12/31/2019) You are therefore considered a U.S. resident for the entire calendar year. You will be filing a Form 1040 for the whole year report worldwide income.  You can use TurboTax to file.

 

However, you can claim to be a dual-status alien for the year you leave (2019) if you meet the following conditions:

  • You are not a U.S. resident during any part of the following year (2020), and
  • You establish that, after you left the U.S., your tax home was a foreign country and you had a closer connection to that country. 

Also, see IRS resources here: Last year residency

 

If you meet these conditions, you have the option to determine your residency termination date as the last day in the calendar year that you were physically present in the United States.  You will be a dual-status alien for that year.  You will then be filing a Form 1040 as a resident report worldwide income, and Form 1040-NR for the rest of the year as a nonresident report only US source income.  As TurboTax does not support any nonresident tax forms, you are advised to use Sprintax to file your Form 1040NR. 

 

You cannot e-fie with TurboTax but can use the program to prepare your resident tax forms i.e. Form 1040.  You will mail both forms together with any required documentation to the IRS location at Austin TX.

To see detailed information:

DualStatus

under What and Where To File for a Dual-Status Year

 

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