Instructions For Form 1040nr-Ez - U.s. Income Tax Return For Certain Nonresident Aliens With No Dependents - 2013 Page 5

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Individual Taxpayer Identification
Name change. If you changed your
1. Taxes withheld from wages earned
Number, and its instructions. Get Form
name because of marriage, divorce,
in the United States and taxes
W-7 online at IRS.gov. Enter “ITIN” in
etc., and your identifying number is a
withheld at the source from
the search box.
social security number, be sure to report
scholarship income from U.S.
the change to the Social Security
It usually takes 6 to 10 weeks to get
sources.
Administration (SSA) before filing your
an ITIN.
When filing Form 1040, show the
return. This prevents delays in
ITINs issued after 2012 are
processing your return and issuing
total tax withheld on line 62. Enter
valid for only 5 years. After the
refunds. It also safeguards your future
TIP
amounts from the attached
5-year period ends, you must
social security benefits. See
Social
statement (Form 1040NR-EZ, lines
reapply for a number.
security number (SSN)
below for how to
18a and 18b) in the column to the
contact the SSA.
right of line 62 and identify and
Note. An ITIN is for tax use only. It
include them in the amount on
Death of a taxpayer. See
Death of a
does not entitle you to social security
Taxpayer, later.
line 62.
benefits or change your employment or
immigration status under U.S. law.
When filing Form 1040NR-EZ,
Identifying Number
show the total tax withheld on lines
Filing Status
18a and 18b. Enter the amount
An incorrect or missing identifying
from the attached statement (Form
number can increase your tax, reduce
Lines 1 and 2. The amount of your tax
your refund, or delay your refund.
1040, line 62) in the column to the
depends on your filing status. Before
right of line 18a, and identify and
Social security number (SSN). In
you decide which box to check, read the
include it in the amount on line 18a.
most cases, you are required to enter
following explanations.
your SSN. If you do not have an SSN
2. Estimated tax paid with Form
Were You Single or Married?
but are eligible to get one, you should
1040-ES or Form 1040-ES (NR).
apply for it. Get Form SS-5, Application
Single. You can check the box on
3. Tax paid with Form 1040-C at the
for a Social Security Card, online at
line 1 if any of the following was true on
time of departure from the United
, from your local
December 31, 2013.
Social Security Administration (SSA)
States. When filing Form 1040,
You were never married.
office, or by calling the SSA at
include the tax paid with Form
You were legally separated under a
1-800-772-1213.
1040-C with the total payments on
decree of divorce or separate
line 72. Identify the payment in the
Fill in Form SS-5 and bring it to your
maintenance. But if, at the end of 2013,
local SSA office in person, along with
area to the left of the entry.
your divorce was not final, you are
original documentation showing your
considered married and cannot check
age, identity, immigration status, and
the box on line 1.
Line Instructions for Form
authority to work in the United States. If
You were widowed before January 1,
1040NR-EZ
you are an F-1 or M-1 student, you also
2013, and did not remarry before the
must show your Form I-20. If you are a
end of 2013.
J-1 exchange visitor, you also must
You meet the tests described under
Name and Address
show your Form DS-2019. It usually
Married persons who live
apart, later.
takes about 2 weeks to get an SSN
Enter your name, street address, city or
Married. If you were married on
once the SSA has all the evidence and
town, and country on the appropriate
December 31, 2013, consider yourself
information it needs.
lines. Include an apartment number
married for the whole year, even if you
Check that both the name and SSN
after the street address, if applicable.
did not live with your spouse at the end
on your Forms 1040NR-EZ, W-2, and
of 2013.
P.O. box. Enter your box number only if
1099 agree with your social security
your post office does not deliver mail to
If your spouse died in 2013, consider
card. If they do not, certain deductions
your home.
yourself married to that spouse for the
and credits on your Form 1040NR-EZ
whole year, unless you remarried before
Foreign address. If you have a foreign
may be reduced or disallowed and you
the end of 2013.
address, enter the city name on the
may not receive credit for your social
appropriate line. Do not enter any other
security earnings. If your Form W-2
Same-sex marriage. For federal tax
information on that line, but also
shows an incorrect SSN or name, notify
purposes, individuals of the same sex
complete the spaces below that line.
your employer or the form-issuing agent
are considered married if they were
as soon as possible to make sure your
lawfully married in a state (or foreign
Country name. Do not abbreviate
earnings are credited to your social
country) whose laws authorize the
the country name. Enter the name in
security record. If the name or SSN on
marriage of two individuals of the same
uppercase letters in English. Follow the
your social security card is incorrect,
sex, even if the state (or foreign country)
country's practice for entering the postal
call the SSA at 1-800-772-1213.
in which they now live does not
code and the name of the province,
recognize same-sex marriage. The term
IRS individual taxpayer identification
county, or state.
“spouse” includes an individual married
number (ITIN). If you do not have and
Address change. If you plan to move
to a person of the same sex if the couple
are not eligible to get an SSN, you must
after filing your return, use Form 8822,
is lawfully married under state (or
enter your ITIN whenever an SSN is
Change of Address, to notify the IRS of
foreign) law. However, individuals who
requested on your tax return.
your new address.
have entered into a registered domestic
For details on how to apply for an
partnership, civil union, or other similar
ITIN, see Form W-7, Application for IRS
Instructions for Form 1040NR-EZ (2013)
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