Hi Peter,
Please see the reply from City of Lansing Income Tax Division.
You have no City of Lansing income tax liability because your
permanent home is not Lansing and you do not work in
Lansing. Because we will receive from the State of Michigan a notice that
you have filed a State of Michigan return with a City of Lansing
address, please file a City of Lansing income tax return reporting no City
of Lansing income tax liability. If you do not file a City
information return, you will get a letter from the City assessing a tax
because we would not know you are an international student.
IF you have further questions, please contact us.
City of Lansing Income Tax Division
Then I reconfirmed there is* no city of Lansing tax liabilities of
international students who lives in Lansing and working for MSU (East
Lansing)* because:
1) His/her permanent home is not Lansing ( "Permanent and principal home to
which a person, wherever temporarily located, ALWAYS intends to return and
a person has only 1 domicile at a time".), and
2) Income source is from East Lansing but not City of Lansing.
Regarding to what kind of documents needed to shown that an individual is
an international student and here is the answer:
Send in a blank return with a statement that you are an
international student, no other documentation is required.
*Suggestions to avoid this letter in the future: For students who received
income form the university and also live in City of Lansing, *file City of
Lansing income tax return BEFORE 4/15 each year, reporting all zeros on the
form which states that you do not have any City of Lansing income tax
liability. Also attache a statement showing that you are an international
student.
Hope this helps,
Sincerely,
Catherine.
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2014-05-28 20:52 GMT-04:00 Peter Yu <[log in to unmask]>:
> Sorry to bother!
>
> 我目前还是F1学生，以non-resident报税，不过住在lansing，今天收到lansing税务
> 局的信，说我需要交lansing city的tax，参加报税的讲座好几年一直都没有听说这个
> 税，请问有人和我情况一样收到过这样的信件吗？我们需要交这个税吗？这个能不能在
> 学校哪个部门咨询下？
>
> 多谢了~~
>
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