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Married Filing Separately with Non resident spouse no TIN

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 18, 2020
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Can someone confirm if the instructions below is correct to use "NRA" if the non - resident alien spouse does not have TIN and lives overseas?

When your spouse is a non-resident residing overseas and does not have an SSN or ITIN, and you want to file your tax return using Married Filing Separately status......

-In the program, as you enter the information, leave the SSN space blank

-After you complete entering all the required information, print out returns and required forms. Enter “NRA” in the space for Spouse's identifying number. ( NRA stands for Nonresident Alien) Do not leave the space blank.

-Submit all the forms and required documents to IRS based on the instructions on your print-out.

Sui

ProSeries Basic

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itonewbie

Level 15

PS does not support e-filing with NRA as SSN. Your only option is to paper-file the return.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Still an AllStar

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GFS

Level 2

Is there an Efile option or workaround available when spouse is non-resident and has no ITIN? Please help

sjrcpa

Level 15

Maybe with other software.

The more I know the more I don’t know.

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brianalanlang

Level 3

Sadly, this option is for ProConnect not ProSeries. However, Despite what other posters may say (who have amazing amount of free time as they think they are an expert and thus comment on everything and anything even when they have no idea), more importantly, you can still efile a MFS return with a NRA spouse in ProSeries. It is a little more complicated though. Before you efile, remove NRA from the spouse's SSN so it is blank. You then need to efile from the EF Center of the Homebase screen and, most importantly, uncheck "Enable conversion error checking".

Hopefully they are getting a refund so you can track it on irs.gov/refunds but this trick does work as I have been using it for years. The Ack will say accepted by the IRS as well.

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LoraKS

Level 2

Hi Brian,

More questions about the efiling MFS with an NRA spouse. 1. Will the federal tax return be noted as "accepted" and a transmission ID available? 2. My case is also needs to file a California tax return. Will the California tax return be accepted for processing by the FTB? 3. What are the consequences of unchecking "enable conversion error checking"?

thank you,

Lora

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brianalanlang

Level 3

You cannot efile a 540 with a NRA.

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