IDOC: Please Help Me!!

Paying for College
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<p>Hi everyone, I'm a highschool senior, the first in the family going to college and my parents don't understand the forms, so I'm stuck filing the IDOC myself and have several questions, help would be much appreciated!! Sorry I'f I sound dumb asking some of these but I have no one else to go to and it's my first time.</p>

<p>1>> If I am sending in 2010 1040 tax returns(parent and student), do I still need to send in W2's for me and my parents?
The list of requirements lists them but it also lists the 1099 and neither of us had to file the 1099 because we are all employed. I was thinking perhaps the W2 and 1099 are for those not sending in the 1040?</p>

<p>2>>What is the difference between sending in original/copies of the 1040? I did this incorrectly apparantly...do I need to write COPY at the top of every paper in pen, and send it through our copy machine? or put a COPY watermark on every page I print it on???</p>

<p>Any other advice on IDOC is much appreciated :)</p>

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<p>Yes, send in copies of the 1040 tax form for both you and your parents. Also send in copies of your and your parents’ W-2s. (If you did not receive any 1099 forms then you don’t need to worry about those.)</p>

<p>You don’t need to write “copy” on anything, no watermarks. Just make a photocopy according to IDOC instruction (one document per page, one-sided) and you’ll keep your originals.</p>

<p>You should write the social security number of the document’s owner on the top right of each copy. So if the W-2 from is your mom’s, then you’ll write her social security number on the top right of the page. If your parents file a joint tax return just put the social security number of the parent whose number is listed first on the 1040.</p>