If there was no income no reason to file correct?
I was not in the USA but I was also not working and had no income of any sort.
So I did not have anything to pay, that I'm sure of. However is there a law saying I must file every year even if no money is owed? I kind of doubt that but I have been wrong before.
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Correct, if you made $0 income then you do not need to file. However, very few people actually make $0 income. If you had self-employment income over $400, then you must file (for all you tax geeks out there, he must pay SE tax) Do you really think you can make the argument that you didn't engage in any sort of activity that led to the creation of $400 of profit for yourself in a year? Not even selling pineapples in Bangkok?
Yes I can. I lived off of income I had already paid taxes on (I had a business that I sold before) while I was a student. Had I worked I would have been deported and or jailed.
I had no income of any sort at all. If anything the US Govt would owe me money.
Only income I could even think that I might have had was interest in my bank account and if I made any at all it was way less than $400 a year!
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I'm just playing agent Smith here...
IRS Agent Smith thinks :I don't like the tone this guy is taking with me. He is not submitting to my authority: "So you had a bank account? Foreign bank account? (go google the penalties for not reporting a foreign bank account)" "So you received interest of less than $400 a year? How did you survive living on less than $400 a year? Possibly some illegal activities?" "Oh you didn't live off of your interest income, you lived off of savings? Let's take a look at those years you earned all that "already taxed income" and see what if we can make some adjustments."
Morphs back into Morpheus...You see how this game goes when you think you didn't do anything wrong? There is nothing wrong in trying to minimize your taxes. But when you take the attitude, that many in this community have, that I am going to use the law to get around the simple fact (but not a law) that the IRS will get a certain percent of what you make, then you will start getting into trouble.