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moniac
Feb 18, 2011, 08:19 PM
My wife and I are Indian citizens filing jointly as residents for tax purposes. My wife was a student pursuing PhD in Spring 2010. She received around $8000 as taxable fellowship, of which $1,300 was deducted as non-resident taxes. She also paid around $1200 as tuition fees for that semester. She received a w-2 (which does not report the scholarship) from her new employer and has not received the 1098-T as she is a non-resident alien.

The questions I had were:

1. Can I use the tuition deduction?

2. How and where do I report the scholarship and the tax paid?

3. Should I deduct the tax and tuition paid from the scholarship before I add to wages on W-2?

MukatA
Feb 18, 2011, 11:56 PM
Tuition and fee deduction benefit is not available in 2010 even for residents.

moniac
Feb 19, 2011, 04:57 PM
Thanks MukatA!

How do I report my wife's taxable fellowship? Should I add it to the wages after subtracting the tax and tuition I paid or should I add the taxes on the fellowship to the federal taxes in the end?