Income Tax
I have not filed for 2008 I have a W2 and 1099-g2 for unemployment benefits. Do you prepare taxes I live in NY state. What are your fees?
Thanks,
Andre
Hello Andre,
Thanks so much for your question.
I do prepare taxes and am located in California, but have clients on the East Coast as well.
My fees are by the form and start at $55.00 which includes both Federal and State with one W-2 and FREE e-file.
Please feel free to contact me at (707) 795-1320 or stephanie@bookkeeping-basics.net to make arrangements.
My long distance clients can choose to either send their documents via certified mail or scan tax documents to a PDF encrypted file and attach to email.
Thanks again for your inquiry. I hope to hear from you soon! :)
Paying Taxes
I was enquiring for my boyfriend. He works for a company in Canada (citizen) and they send him over to the United States to work. He has heard from other guys at work there that if he's worked in the States for more than 6 months he has to pay taxes.
However, he has never worked over in the States for an entire 6 months at one time. He's always come home, for a week or two then been sent to another job sort of thing.
The company he works for pays for his lodgings at different hotels and any vehicles are rented and payed by for the company.
Any information on this would be great!
Thanks,
N.G.
Hello N.G.,
Thank you for your inquiry.
I believe the provisions of the United States-Canada Income Tax Treaty must be applied.
According the Internal Revenue Service:
Income that residents of Canada receive for personal services performed as employees (dependent personal services) in the United States is exempt from U.S. tax if it is not more than $10,000 for the year. If the income is more than $10,000 for the year, it is exempt only if:
The residents are present in the United States for no more than 183 days in any 12-month period beginning or ending in the tax year, and
The income is not paid by, or on behalf of, a U.S. resident, and is not borne by a permanent establishment in the United States.
These exemptions do not apply to public entertainers (such as theater, motion picture, radio, or television artists, musicians, or athletes) from Canada who derive more than $15,000 in gross receipts, including reimbursed expenses, from their entertainment activities in the United States during the calendar year. However, the exemptions do apply, regardless of this $15,000 limit, to athletes participating in team sports in leagues with regularly scheduled games in both Canada and the United States.
Pay received by a resident of Canada for employment regularly done in more than one country on a ship, aircraft, motor vehicle, or train operated by a Canadian resident is exempt from U.S. tax.
So in summary, if your boyfriend made under $10,000, he does not have to pay any United States tax.
If your boyfriend made over $10,000, and he worked less than 183 days in the year, he does not have to pay any U.S. tax.
However; If he made over $10,000, and he worked over 183 days in the year, he would have to file as a nonresident alien using form 1040NR or 1040NR-EZ. The return is due by April 15th, provided he file on a calendar-year basis.
For more information and to access the online 1040 forms, read Topic 851 - Resident and Non-Resident Aliens at www.irs.gov.
I hope I've helped answer your question. Thanks again for asking!
