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I work for a foreign company with no EIN or Federal ID for the U.S. - what do I add in Box B for wages?

johnalmeida02 — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:58:00 GMT

Re: I work for a foreign company with no EIN or Federal ID for the U.S. - what do I add in Box B ...

LinaJ2020 — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:08:58 GMT

Did you work for the foreign company while living in the US? Did you receive a W-2? If you did, in order to e-file, you would need the EIN or Federal ID. You may contact your employer. This amount will go on line 1 of your Form 1040.

If you live overseas and worked for a foreign company, you will treat it as foreign income. You do not need your employer's EIN or Federal ID. You would enter information here:

In TurboTax online,

After sign into your account, select Pick up where you left off
At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in "foreign income" and Enter
Select Jump to foreign income
Follow prompts

If you have lived outside the United States for at least 330 days during 12 consecutive months, you may qualify for an exclusion. For more information, please see Foreign income and exclusion and Extension.

Re: I work for a foreign company with no EIN or Federal ID for the U.S. - what do I add in Box B ...

pk — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:36:24 GMT

@johnalmeida02 , generally agreeing with @LinaJ2020 on tax treatment of income from a foreign entity, a point I would like to add --- if you are an employee of a foreign entity with NO US presence , it will not have an EIN & therefore NO W-2. In such case, you are treated as self-employed and income source is domestic/US sourced. Thus you will be liable for the SECA taxes ( 15.3% of the net income ) , report your gross income and associated allowable expenses etc. on Schedule-C. TurboTax will also generate Schedule-SE. Is this your case ?