<p>My son is studying in an American college. He received an international scholarship. Does he have to apply for a US SIN # and file a US tax return?</p>
<p>If he is working in the US then he will need apply for SSN and as far as the IRS forms it depends on whether he has any American income. Were the scholarships paid directly to him or the college? My D is in a similar situation but all scholarships went to the school and not her so they do not count as income but one of my friends has a child in another college and the scholarships were paid to him directly and he pais his tuition and such from that. He has been tagged with both Canadian and US income tax this year.</p>
<p>he is not working down there. I believe the scholarship went straight to the school as I am only paying the portion of the tuition not covered by the scholarship. Did your D’s school send any tax slips? we received one, this is why the questions are coming up now.</p>
<p>thanks your your response on this.</p>
<p>here is a quote directly from the email my D got. ‘Update on tax information. If you did not have any earned income in the U.S., you are supposed to file form 8843.’ This form is a no brainer as long as yo0u have been able to keep track of the number of days your child was in the US and in Canada. Yes we always get the income form that can used on Canadian income tax (i forget the form number right now). We also get a copy of what is sent to the IRS automatically showing that the scholarship were paid directly to the school. I have called the IRS to make sure all is well and they have never said that she needs to file anyform other than the one I mentioned, if you dont have that form just google it and it will come up. This is the 4th year we do it this way and there has yet to be a problem.</p>
<p>Forgot to mention that for your Canadian income tax you need to either have a receipt of the conversion cost the day you wrote the check or I believe you will use the rate as of the day you file your income tax. We were forwarned about this and got a bank print out of the rate on the day we paid for tax purposes and in our case we were lucky because her first year the dollar sucked and we lost almost $4000 converting it so it helped to know the actual value to claim</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your help. I will go onto the IRS site and investigate more. I really appreciate the help on this.</p>
<p>So much for saving money with the dollar high.</p>