<p><a href="http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf</a></p>
<p>Which parts should I start collecting receipts for over the next year? I'm especially curious as to whether or not I should fill out "Line 26: Moving expenses. Attach Form 3903".</p>
<p>For the next year, I expect to be on a $30k/year fellowship at Brown. So should I also prepare to fill out line 34: Tuition and fees if my school should pay for most of it?</p>
<p>You shouldn’t have to pay for tuition, and it’s very unlikely that your receipts and whatnot will exceed the standard deduction.</p>
<p>Don’t bother collecting receipts. Your moving expenses don’t count because you aren’t moving to a full-time job, and like RR said if the school pays for your tuition and fees you can’t take a deduction on it. Like RR said, you will likely just take the standard deduction. The only think that will probably go above that is if you decide to pay your student loan interest off while you are in grad school.</p>
<p>What will likely happen is that you will take the standard deduction and just claim your $30K salary as either wages (if Brown hires you as a GRA and gives you a W-2, which happened in my first two years at my uni) or, more likely, as scholarship/fellowship income (which happened in my second two years here). Under the former circumstances, they will take out the taxes themselves and you won’t owe big time. The more likely circumstances is that they give you the fellowship untaxed and you have to pay taxes on it each April, or estimated taxes quarterly.</p>
<p>Don’t let anyone tell you that you are exempt from taxes if you are a student. It’s not true. You are not.</p>
<p>Okay - thanks for the advice - that helps!</p>