Hi Yunhua,
I would highly recommend you contact your employer's payroll office and ask
them for help.
Here are some of my thoughts:
(1) Federal
1) For Personal Allowances Calculation, you need to know your tax residency
status<http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Determining-Alien-Tax-Status>which
is depends on your legal status (LPR/F-1/H-1/other visa holder) and
marital status.
2) For federal purpose, if you are on F-1 visa and lived in US less than 5
year, your tax residency status is Non-resident Alien (NRA) as an Exempt
Person based on Substantial Present Test.
3) In the case as an NRA, you need to put "1" on Box 5 and "NRA" on the
left near Box 6.
4) As an NRA, please let your employer's payroll office know about your NRA
status since your FICA should be
exempt<http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Foreign-Student-Liability-for-Social-Security-and-Medicare-Taxes>.
Make sure FICA did not get withhold on your paycheck, if your first check
got withheld FICA, ask your employer to refund it to you right away. If you
wait to 2015 and notice your W-2 got FICA withheld, it will be a pain for
you to claim the refund of
FICA<http://www.yale.edu/oiss/law/taxes/personal/social.html>on Form
843 & 8316 in 2015 and your employer has to amend their 2014
quarterly filed form.
(2) State
1) Indiana is one of the state which has Reciprocal
Agreements<http://www.michigan.gov/taxes/0,4676,7-238-43715-154059--F,00.html>with
Michigan. You can ask your employer's payroll office if you could
leave the Indiana WH-4 blank and only file the MI-W4.
2) If the only state withholding form you need to file is the MI, then box
6 put "1" because state of MI consider everyone is single and the form
MI-W4 does not have a marital option on it.
Hope this helps,
Sincerely,
Catherine.
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Yunhua Ding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am a MI resident and will be working in IN this summer, so the employer
> sent me
> MI-W4, WH-4, and Federal W4 to fill out. I do not know how to fill the
> exemption
> for the housing subsidy which is added into my income.
>
> If anyone can and is willing to help, please contact me at 517 798 2680.
> I very
> appreciate it!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yunhua
>
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