Tax guide for permanent residents

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hi everyone,

i am 22 years old. i have a couple of questions to the members of vj.please guide me.

1. i am a permanent resident of USA. immigrated to USA in July, 2009 with my family. i need a instruction manual which guides a permanent resident about how to file tax documents etc.

2. i didn't do any job here neither earned any money by any means while my stay in USA. someone said that i will be getting money from IRS instead of paying to them. is it true?

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Income tax is basically a tax you pay on your earnings (income). Other taxes are things like sales tax if you purchase something. Property tax if you own property. Since you had no income or earnings from a job, then you don't pay income tax.

The government won't pay you for not working. There are people who work at low paying jobs and the government rewards them for working (rather than not working and being on welfare) by allowing them "earned income credit" which may seem like the government giving them money because they often qualify for a good refund higher than what they paid in. That may be what the "someone said" is about. But to get that "earned income credit" you have to qualify and one of the things is you actually have to earn some income.

Here's an IRS page discussing if you need to file.

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96623,00.html

[Mononoke28 135]

If you didn't work that means that you didn't pay any taxes, so you won't be getting any money from the IRS. You get money back if they took out more taxes out of your paycheck than they were supposed to; otherwise, you won't get anything.

Check out the IRS web site for more information.

Diana