How to declare green card status in the United States?

1. Is my resident status consistent with that in the immigration law?

The identification standard of resident status in the tax law is inconsistent with the immigration law. According to the immigration law, you are a non-local resident before you get a green card. However, in tax law, although there is no green card, they may be American residents or foreigners with dual identities in tax law.

2. I have obtained the permanent resident status (green card) of the United States and come to the United States for short-term residence every year. All my sources of income are overseas. Do I have to declare income tax in America?

Getting an American green card means that you are a legal resident of the United States, and at the same time, you automatically become a resident of the tax law. American tax law is "personal". No matter where your income comes from, you must file tax returns with the United States. Income from all over the world must be declared in the United States

3.5438 June+February 2002 (F- 1) entered the United States as a student. Is my tax declaration status a resident or a non-resident? When you come to study in the United States as a student of F 1 or as a student's family member (F2), your tax filing status belongs to non-resident status.

I have a visa of B 1/B2, and I come to visit my relatives in the United States for about four months every year. Do I need to file a tax return? If I need to file tax returns, do I file income tax as a resident or a non-resident?

If you meet the following requirements, you are a resident of American tax law and have to declare income tax all over the world. (1) lived in the United States for more than 3 1 day in that year; (2) Staying in the United States for more than 183 days in the past three years.

183 days is calculated as follows:

Suppose you lived in the United States for 120 days in 2003, 150 days in 2002 and 66 days in 2006, 5438+0.

Number of days of residence in that year (2003) (120 days x 1) 120 days.

Last year (2002), the number of days of residence was converted into 1/3 (150 days x 1/3)50 days.

The residence days in the previous year (200 1 year) are converted into 1/6 (66 days x 1/6) 1 1 day.

According to the tax law, the number of days you stayed in the United States in 2003 was 18 1 day.

Because your stay in the United States in the past three years has not exceeded 183 days, you are still not a resident of the 2003 US tax law, and you do not have to declare world income tax in the United States.

5. I have an H- 1B visa. Should I file tax returns as a resident or a non-resident

With an H- 1B work visa, you are regarded as a US resident for tax purposes, and you must declare your global income.

6. I am a student with a visa F 1 (pretending to be F2), and our work income can be exempted from social security tax. However, if the employer has directly withheld the social security tax from his salary, how can he apply for a refund of this social security tax?

If you come to the United States as a student of F 1 and are approved by the Immigration Bureau to practice outside the school, you don't need to pay social security tax and medical tax according to the provisions of Tax Law 3121(b) (19). You can contact your employer and ask him to refund the withholding tax. If the employer can't refund this tax, you can fill in Form 843 and apply to the tax authorities for tax refund when filing tax returns.

In a blink of an eye, it is the annual tax return period in the United States. The annual deadline for filing tax returns in the United States is April of the following year 15. As the deadline approaches every year, you can see on TV how the post office works overtime, so that those who delay the final tax return can send the tax bill quickly. It can be seen that there are still many people who can delay tax returns.

I think this is related to the complexity of American tax law. Although the tax law is very complicated, it can certainly prevent tax evasion, but for big money, tax evasion has different names. The real losers are those who earn money honestly to support their families.

My economic relationship is extremely simple, tax returns are easy, and my English is passable. Even so, I hate reading the tax return instructions, and I always put it off until I can't put it off any longer. Those who have some assets, some investments, earn more than one salary every year, or suffer heavy losses in assets have more articles to study and more forms to fill out when filing tax returns. Of course, the United States also has professional tax filing services, but the quality of these services is uneven. Unless your economic activities look like a mess, you'd better report them yourself.

Every February and March, all kinds of forms for tax returns are sent to you. The simplest is the employer's W-2 form and your bank interest list. After all these documents are collected, it is best to do a tax declaration exercise immediately to see if you should refund or pay taxes. If there is a tax refund, you should file a tax return as soon as possible so as to get your money back earlier. If tax should be paid, it can also be postponed until early April. You do this because the money you put in the tax bureau has no interest. Many people expect a lot of tax rebates, thinking that this is a pie in the sky. In fact, the more tax refunded, the more money you lend to the tax bureau for nothing.

Electronic tax return

In order to facilitate tax payment, the IRS strongly advocates the use of electronic tax returns. There are some free websites on the website of the tax bureau. These websites let you fill in every item on the W-2 form, then automatically calculate it for you, and then report it to the tax bureau quickly. After the tax bureau accepts it, it can quickly process your tax bill, and the tax refunded can also be quickly refunded.

However, most of these electronic tax returns only report federal taxes for free, and you must meet the requirements, such as which state you must live in, and the adjusted income should not exceed $50,000. If you want to report the national tax together, you have to charge, the lowest is more than nine yuan. Some services charge for consulting them, while the free telephone consultation of the Inland Revenue Department is free.

It seems convenient to use electronic tax returns, but it is not necessarily so. Before choosing which one, be sure to look at its website carefully and see if there is any reason why it can't use its service. For example, Freetaxusa.com does not support the declaration of extra income known to the IRS. If you have this kind of income (reflected in your 1099 form) and misuse Freetaxusa.com, the calculated result may make you happier than the actual situation, but if it is discovered by the tax bureau, you may be more than one bargained for.

Free service?

People like Freetaxusa.com had better tell you its limitations from the beginning. Some e-service websites don't tell you at first. When you register and fill in the income item by item, a page suddenly appears, which reads: "This service does not support retirement account customers." Your time will be wasted.

Another advantage of Freetaxusa.com is that you can see your tax returns before you decide how to file your tax returns and whether to file them with the state tax. In this way, you can use it to make a budget, and compare the results of manual tax returns to see which one is more beneficial to you. Don't trust the calculation results of electronic tax return. One year, the results of my electronic federal tax report and manual report were the same, but the state tax part was different. My own calculation is better than its own. I reported the state tax by hand and the federal tax by mail, no problem.

There are also electronic tax returns, which are particularly hateful. It says it's free, but after you filled in the information with great effort, you didn't show you the results list, but asked for credit card information. You don't know what will happen after taking this step. Is it automatically reported to you with the national tax (this is what it wants), or do you still have a choice? If you want to do electronic tax returns for free, it's really not worth spending time trying the practices of various companies.

In the process of filing tax returns, annoying things often happen. A friend, recommended by a colleague, invested a sum of money in an investment company. The company went bankrupt before it expired. If you go bankrupt, you go bankrupt, but you report it to the tax bureau, and you don't give investors interest at all (theoretical calculation). The friend asked again and again, and the final result was that the short interest was taxed, and then the investment loss was tax-free in the future. The process of bankruptcy of that company is very long. Before the final loss of investors is officially announced, investors can't start to declare investment losses when filing tax returns. The tax bill also stipulates that the annual investment loss declaration shall not exceed 3000 yuan. For those with large investment losses, it will be a process of digging old wounds year after year, and only they know the degree of heartache. Many people don't know if they can report the loss when filing tax returns, so they go to the online financial forum for consultation. Reading those posts is a history of blood and tears.

Extra income

Money is a good thing, the more the better, as long as you go the right way. Nobody likes to earn extra money. In America, you must pay taxes quickly. Of course, you can hide extra money that the tax bureau doesn't know, such as the seller's second-hand money and cash transactions for providing services to people. As long as no one reports you, you are safe. If you work in a department and someone owes money, you must tell the tax bureau that you have to declare your income.

In American tax law, the higher the income, the greater the tax increase gradient. For example, a bachelor earns 5000 yuan and taxes 503 yuan, one tenth. If the income is 50,000 yuan, the tax is 9 17 1 yuan, which is no longer one tenth. If a person's income is 50,000 yuan and he has 5,000 yuan of spare money, then his total income is 55,000 yuan, and his tax is not 9 17 1+503=9674, but 1042 1 yuan. This person's situation is still somewhat different, but it is not much different. In this way, the joy of earning extra money suddenly cooled down a lot.

The United States and China are different. China pays the salary, and the extra money will be deducted from the tax. You don't know how it was deducted, and there's nothing you can do anyway. People's general psychology, taxes always account for a small proportion, so it is still happy to look at the money at hand. Wages in the United States are taxed in advance, and when the time comes, you will be refunded more and paid less. The overpayment to the Inland Revenue Department is different. I'll give it all to you first. I'm very happy. It's time to file a tax return. After calculation, it is very likely that the degree of extra-quick bleeding will make taxpayers feel distressed and think: Who am I working for?

It's quite eye-opening to see someone asking for extra money on the Internet: "A certain gentleman's salary is 45,000, and the interest is 1.700, totaling 46,700. 6000 extra money. If there is no extra money, the required 8200 and retirement plan 3500 are exempted when filing tax returns, but the actual report is 35000. The tax is 542 1. The company has deducted 6400 yuan in advance. So he can get a tax refund of 979 yuan. Now that we have this extra money, we need to use the self-employment tax form to calculate that its tax is 860. Half of this tax can be included in the tax-free items, but the total amount of this tax must be added to the tax earned by oneself. Now because of this extra money, his total income is his own income+extra money. On this basis, he will consult the tax schedule to calculate the tax, that is, the tax amount of tax revenue of (46700+6000)-(8200+3500+430) = 40570 is 6809. This tax is subject to an additional tax of 860 pounds. Equal to 7669. In this way, he can not only refund 979, but also pay 1269 yuan. Here and outside add up to more than two thousand. The extra money brings tax equal to 30%. "

Some netizens replied that this is not outrageous, because you are a self-employed, in addition to paying income tax, you have to pay social security tax and endowment insurance tax, so the proportion is high.

I checked the problem of extra money and found that the tax bureau seems to be very reasonable, allowing you to deduct the expenses of your own business. But in practice, for example, an online writer wrote an article, which was used by the media and got the manuscript fee. When writing, this writer may never think that his hobby has become a private career, so he will not record the expenses related to writing. Even raising is troublesome. For example, if you own a car, which mileage is related to writing and which is not, you should write it clearly when filing tax returns. Isn't this difficult for people?

Taking bribes and paying taxes?

American tax law is not only complicated, but also ridiculous to read. What is ridiculous is not the concept of tax payment embodied in those clauses, but its operability. For example, regarding other taxable income, there are: accepting bribes, picking up things (which should be converted into market prices), free trips given to you by travel agencies, selling old things for your own use, and stolen things. It seems that the tax bureau only recognizes money but not the source, and only uses the word "other income" to cover up the tax bill. These regulations really only guard against gentlemen, not villains. I don't know how many gentlemen in America declare what they stole to the tax bureau. I think the United States should learn from China and send people to collect booth fees from people who sell their own things.

The American personal tax bill in 2005 has 292 pages. But don't think that this book covers everything. Often after reading a paragraph about yourself, you suddenly find that there is another line that says, "Please refer to the page of the instruction manual." Originally, I read this book, but there is no way to recover my doubts. Just look it up!

It is natural for citizens to pay taxes, but there is a man in America, Owen? Irving Schiff (1984) published a book, exposing the violation of the constitution by the IRS in collecting citizens' income tax. This book is nearly 600 pages long. The basic spirit is to prove that citizens' wages, rental income, dividends and interest are not income, and only the company's profits are considered income. This man is the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party in 1996. He served time for refusing to pay taxes. Recently, a man was shut down by the tax bureau because he refused to pay taxes according to his book. He turned to sue Schiff, demanding millions of compensation, saying it misled readers. However, he admitted that Schiff did not force him not to pay taxes: "I listened to him because his words were so convincing."

Schiff said that this federal government is a criminal government. Before taking action, you should consider whether your arm is twisted in your thigh.