Bilingual Bank Teller program graduate Angelica Colon-Chin, now starting a successful career as an employee of Wells Fargo at its downtown San Francisco branch, needed to do her taxes last winter. That鈥檚 when Technology Training Manager Leo Sosa advised Angelica to head over to the room at Plaza Adelante, where her taxes could be prepared at no cost.
The young adult then told her aunt聽to do the same. So, Laurie Chin and Maged Nabawy headed over from their nearby Mission District residence to Plaza Adelante. While calculating their current year鈥檚 taxes, the astute preparer realized that the prior two years鈥 returns should be amended: it turns out that the prior tax preparer did not take into account the IRS鈥檚 鈥淣onresident Spouse Treated as a Resident鈥 rule. This rule states that if, at the end of your tax year, you are a U.S. citizen or resident alien (even if you were not for the whole year) and married to a nonresident alien, you can choose to treat your nonresident spouse as a U.S. resident for U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax purposes.
This is an especially smart move if the overseas spouse did not have much income. Such was the case with Maged, who had been working in his native Egypt since 2011. When Maged鈥檚 income was added to Laurie鈥檚 earnings, they then got two times the standard deduction and personal exemptions on federal and state returns. The result? A $2,585 refund!
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Laurie speaks of her experience at 新加坡六合彩图库 as follows: “Everyone was so nice. They set up an interpreter service for us, which was great. I was surprised at how easy the tax preparation was and it was amazing that it was free.”
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鈥淔or our tax team, helping families likes this makes our jobs meaningful. This family can take their $2,500 refund and start building assets. That鈥檚 what it鈥檚 all about at 新加坡六合彩图库,鈥 concludes Moy-Borgen.
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