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Get your taxes done using TurboTax
@rodrigosuzanooli wrote:
Yes I lived in the US in 2021 with incomes and I left the US last month. I already did this year the 2021 annual tax return. I do not intend to return and my last US based income will be deposited tomorrow.
Your facts are still unclear, because you said you were a non-resident alien but you lived in the US.
If you lived in the US for all of 2021, you are normally considered a resident alien, unless you were here under certain visas or had diplomatic status which would make you a non-resident alien.
Assuming you are correct that you are an NRA even though you lived in the US all year, then you need to file a 2021 form 1040-NR (non-resident) that only reports and pays US income tax on US-source income.* Note that Turbotax can't prepare a 1040-NR, if you filed a regular 1040, you need to file an amended return as a 1040-NR and you may want professional help.
Then for 2022, you are also an NRA, and you would file a 2022 form 1040-NR to report and pay US tax on your US source-income, if you had any.
*US source income is income earned from working in the US, or from selling certain property held in the US. US source income is not income paid to you by a US employer while you are physically living and working outside US boundaries. See here for more. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/nonresident-aliens-source-of-income
So if you really have been an NRA all along, nothing really has changed. You file form 1040-NR if you have US-source income.
However, if you were a resident alien for 2021, then you may either be a dual-status alien for 2022, or an NRA for 2022, depending on the substantial presence test. If you are a US resident alien, you owe a US tax return for 2021 to report all your world-wide income. For 2022, if you are dual-status, you owe a US tax return that reports and pays tax on all your world-wide income up to the date of your departure, and then only on US-source income after that. Turbotax can't handle dual-status tax returns, you would have to make a lot of manual adjustments and file by mail, or contact a tax professional.
Here's all the details.
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-519