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Sorry I'm not trying to do something wrong. I did search for a few hours and pieced this together from multiple threads. I havent found anything concrete on how to do this, if i had I would not be asking. The IRS had made my life a living hell a few years back and I'm afraid to do anything wrong. Fr...

Anyone?

Typo, I meant:

-Write on the top of the 1040 "Pro Forma 1040 for XXV(3) calculation"

Thank you very much for the replies. I think I'm getting this. Just to make sure I'm clear this is what I'm going to do: - Fill out a 1040 using my spouses and my world income up to the point of line 61 (total tax), use this to get my effective tax rate. - Fill out a 1040NR as normal but use the eff...

Nelsona thank you very much for the reply. I know you can file a 1040NR with all the benefits of the 1040 but I have not been able to find instructions on doing so. I believe its something like filling out a 1040 and transferring the tax amount to the 1040NR but there must be more to it. Can you exp...

Also if it matters, I'm a direct hire to the US company and I receive a W2

In this thread http://forums.serbinski.com/viewtopic.php?t=6951 nelsona states: "The Cdn/US person should be allowed to file the same as a US citizen "in the same circumstances" (which covers whether he moves to US or not)." "What it means is that Cdns, regardless of where t...