Irs Tax Instructions Form 1040a: Fill & Download for Free

If you're not itemizing, and just using form 1040A and associated schedules, just go the the IRS website. You can download the forms and instructions. It's not difficult. I think you can file electronically on the IRS website as well.

It depends. I’d youve only worked for one or two places and are single, you can do it with the IRS form 1040ez. If you’re married, form 1040a. The instructions are online and free. TurboTax is good if you’ve got more complicated income or situations.

In the United States, with regard to federal income tax only, you need to know:whether the individual is a citizen, a non-citizen national, a lawful permanent resident, or some other category, and if in the “some other category”, how many days that person has been physically present in the United States over the past year, and possibly also the year preceding and the year before that as well;how much money that person earned through:wages on which Social Security taxes were collected,wages on which Social Security taxes were not collected,self-employment, andall other types of income not listed above (such as interest, dividends, royalties, capital gains, or gambling winnings);whether the person sold a home during the prior year;whether the person received payments from a retirement plan (including Social Security), and if so how much;how old the person is (specifically, whether or not under 19 and whether or not over 65);if the person is blind;whether the person is married, or not, and if not married, whether the reason for that was that the person’s spouse died during the past year;whether the person has children, and if so how many and whether or not they live with him or her;whether anyone else can claim the person as a tax dependent; andwhether the person received any advance payments of the health insurance marketplace premium credit during the prior year.And that doesn’t quite provide all the information required to definitively determine whether a particular person is required to file a US federal income tax tax return; there’s still a few edge cases that require information beyond the facts on this list to determine if a return is required. Also, not all of these facts will be required for every person.The instructions for Form 1040 (and its variants, Form 1040A and 1040EZ), for resident taxpayers, and Form 1040NR (and its variant, Form 1040NR-EZ), for nonresident taxpayers, have instructions that one can follow to determine if a filing is required, and if so what form must be used. Note also that if you’re not a US citizen, US non-citizen national, or US lawful permanent resident, you’ll also have to figure out whether you’re a resident taxpayer or a nonresident taxpayer in order to decide whether to file Form 1040 or Form 1040NR before you can figure out if you have to file at all. The IRS has a publication for that, too: Publication 519 (2016), U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens. (US citizens, US non-citizen nationals, and US lawful permanent residents are always “resident taxpayers”, even if they do not live in the United States.)The rules for when a state return is required are, of course, separate and distinct.