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?

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. 

 

 

@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 ?