Paying taxes in USA
This title sounds like "Surfing in USA" but it's worst.
It turns out last week I received a bunch of weird papers telling me about paying "federal taxes, state taxes, scholar, departmental, toilet taxes etc..." After overcoming my first angina pectoris, at first sight I went blind. There were so many numbers, and letters, and paragraphs, annexes, and acronims they filled up my poor mind....
This was just the beginning. After those first blasts, they came up with jargon such "taxes witholding, out-of-state taxes, withholding allowances, tax rate, exempt. code, TIN, NQI's/ flow-through..Ole! blablabla.
Holy crab! I tought...
I realized this is one of those sheets with the ethereal ability to trigger you a sweet headache after 10 seconds reading. The truth is we know what's going on. Our brain knows. And he rejects it. He doesn't want to go troughout all this buro-shit awaiting for....But well, that´s life afterall.
So today I went to the bursars office and finally I saw the light. Actually, I discovered there's nothing as easy as paying taxes in Ohio. So, to be a good alien resident you need:
the formular 1040 NREZ .If you survive it, then comes the W-2, which in turns leads you toward the1042-S, who finally unlocks the 8843. But this are just formular subsets. So the 1040NREZ (called EZ because it is the "Easy" one) includes the W-2,the 1042-S and the 8843. Then after successfully completing the 1040NREZ, you need to fill in another one, the IT1040EZ for the State Taxes.
Once you struggled for your life and you managed to survive, then you are ready for the next little one: the Kent City Taxes. A piece of cake. For this one, you just need to walk 30' to the Town Hall and "alledgedly" show the W-2 and "maybe" and ID. As you see the requirements for this last one are highly hypothetical, because I didn't go yet. ;)
It turns out last week I received a bunch of weird papers telling me about paying "federal taxes, state taxes, scholar, departmental, toilet taxes etc..." After overcoming my first angina pectoris, at first sight I went blind. There were so many numbers, and letters, and paragraphs, annexes, and acronims they filled up my poor mind....
This was just the beginning. After those first blasts, they came up with jargon such "taxes witholding, out-of-state taxes, withholding allowances, tax rate, exempt. code, TIN, NQI's/ flow-through..Ole! blablabla.
Holy crab! I tought...
I realized this is one of those sheets with the ethereal ability to trigger you a sweet headache after 10 seconds reading. The truth is we know what's going on. Our brain knows. And he rejects it. He doesn't want to go troughout all this buro-shit awaiting for....But well, that´s life afterall.
So today I went to the bursars office and finally I saw the light. Actually, I discovered there's nothing as easy as paying taxes in Ohio. So, to be a good alien resident you need:
the formular 1040 NREZ .If you survive it, then comes the W-2, which in turns leads you toward the1042-S, who finally unlocks the 8843. But this are just formular subsets. So the 1040NREZ (called EZ because it is the "Easy" one) includes the W-2,the 1042-S and the 8843. Then after successfully completing the 1040NREZ, you need to fill in another one, the IT1040EZ for the State Taxes.
Once you struggled for your life and you managed to survive, then you are ready for the next little one: the Kent City Taxes. A piece of cake. For this one, you just need to walk 30' to the Town Hall and "alledgedly" show the W-2 and "maybe" and ID. As you see the requirements for this last one are highly hypothetical, because I didn't go yet. ;)