Translate Your Own Documents for IRS

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
November 8, 2020
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I consider myself competent in both English and the document’s original language. Will the IRS accept my translation of a document?

xmasbaby0

Level 15

What? What are you trying to do?

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Critter-3

Level 15

If you mail in a form in something other than english rest assured the IRS has translators ... you are not the only person who has this situation.

glick_meirAuthor

Level 2

I am a multi-national U.S. taxpayer. Some of the tax records are written in a foreign language. Must a U.S. taxpayer spend a large amount of time and money translating the documents into English for the IRS? The IRS, whose requirements at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw7.pdf does not specify what constitutes a “certified translation”.

Critter-3

Level 15

Well now that you have been more specific in which "docs" you are talking about ... the W-7 instructions page 3 says :

3. The documentation you provide must be current (that is, not expired).

There are 13 acceptable documents, as shown in the following table. At least one document must contain your photograph, unless you’re a dependent under age 14 (under age 18 if a student). You may later be required by the IRS to provide a certified translation of foreign-language documents.

So if that is needed you can ask the IRS about how to get it. The IRS has translators on the payroll so unless this is written in Martian you should not have an issue.

Damoni

Level 2

A copy of the file for my stimulus check

gasinse1

Level 2

It depends on the quality of the translation. It's up to you. But I know exactly where and how to find a good translator. It helped me a lot that I found it without any problems and now I use it steadily both for work if I need to translate something and for personal needs as well. The translators here easily translate english to spanish and I already know they are real professionals and know what they are doing. I hope I was able to help and now I won't have any more problems!