Help With Completing Your Tax Forms

Sponsored by the Office of International Programs (OIP)

SFSU VITA Program

BE SURE TO BRING YOUR W-2 FORMS, 1042s FORMS AND FORM 1098 or 1099 WITH YOU TO THE SEMINAR !

These seminars are for F students who have been in the U.S. in F status for five years or less (2006 or later).

The deadline for filing your income tax returns is April 18, 2011 if you received wages or other income subject to tax withholding. Otherwise, if you had no income and are filing only form 8843, the deadline is June 15, 2011.

• FOR ASSISTANCE WITH FEDERAL TAX FORMS:
  
  Call the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at 1-215-516-2000 (not a free call)
  
  Assistance is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  
  Or, visit their website, http://www.irs.gov/help/page/0,,id=133197,00.html
  
  
• FOR ASSISTANCE WITH CALIFORNIA STATE FORMS:
  
  Call 1-800-852-5711 (free call)
  
  Assistance is available from 6:00am - midnight Monday - Friday and from 7:00am-4:00pm on Saturdays and holidays
  
  Or, visit their website, http://www.ftb.ca.gov
  
  Visit the downtown San Francisco Office of the Internal Revenue Service, located at 450 Golden Gate Avenue. From late January until April 15, the office is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:00am - 4:30pm. At all other times, office hours are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 9 am to 1 pm.
  
  Contact a tax preparation service, professional tax accountant, or tax attorney. Be sure that whomever you visit is knowledgeable about non-resident tax laws. (Please note that a fee will be charged by anyone hired to prepare your tax forms.)
  
  

Visit the self help tax website of the University of Texas at Austin International Office: http://www.utexas.edu/international/taxes/. The Site contains step-by-step instructions and examples of the required forms.

OIP staff are neither qualified nor permitted to give individual tax advice. Tax information is available only at tax seminars.