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I was on F1 Visa till 09/30/2020 and my status changed to H1B on 10/01/2020. I will qualify to make the first-year choice on April 1st, 2020.
As I am single, I don't qualify to make a full-year resident choice.
What I have understood till now that I have to file Form 1040 as a tax return and form 1040-NR as a statement.
My questions are
1) I tried to file form 1040 using TurboTax but the form was filled as if I was a resident for the entire year. Do I need to adjust these numbers by myself?
2) Showing 1040-NR as a statement - I found this line very vague. What does mean by the statement? Should I fill out the entire form or some specific details?
3) At some of the places, it was mentioned to provide a first-year choice statement. Is this statement alternative to Form 1040-NR or supplements the form 1040 and form 1040-NR?
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It depends.
You are a dual-status alien when you have been both a U.S. resident alien and a nonresident alien in the same tax year. Dual status does not refer to your citizenship, only to your resident status for tax purposes in the United States. In determining your U.S. income tax liability for a dual-status tax year, different rules apply for the part of the year you are a resident of the United States and the part of the year you are a nonresident. The most common dual-status tax years are the years of arrival and departure.
if your income was foreign earned income or passive income earned from investments, you could exclude that portion of the income. Your calculations otherwise look correct.
Here is an IRS link to instructions about the taxation of Dual-Status Aliens.
1) For the 1040, you cannot use the standard deduction. You can itemize certain allowable deductions. You cannot claim a personal exemption deduction.
See How do I change from the standard deduction to itemized (or vice-versa)? and select Itemized deduction even if you do not have any to enter)
2) You can use the 1040-NR as the statement, just write "Dual-Status Statement" across the top.
3) The first-year statement is separate and must include your name and address and specify the following:
But what about tax brackets.
Let's say If I earned 100,000$ in 2020 of which 50,000$ was earned as non-resident and 50,000$ as a resident.
In this case,
Does the brackets are applied individually on each income portion?
The current tax brackets are
So does that mean I pay
Non - resident tax = 0.1 * (9875) + 0.12 * (40125 - 9875) + 0.22* (50000-40125) =6790
Resident income = 0.1 * (9875) + 0.12 * (40125 - 9875) + 0.22* (50000-40125) = 6790
It depends.
You are a dual-status alien when you have been both a U.S. resident alien and a nonresident alien in the same tax year. Dual status does not refer to your citizenship, only to your resident status for tax purposes in the United States. In determining your U.S. income tax liability for a dual-status tax year, different rules apply for the part of the year you are a resident of the United States and the part of the year you are a nonresident. The most common dual-status tax years are the years of arrival and departure.
if your income was foreign earned income or passive income earned from investments, you could exclude that portion of the income. Your calculations otherwise look correct.
Here is an IRS link to instructions about the taxation of Dual-Status Aliens.
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