<p>Hello</p>
<p>On the Fafsa for the 2010-2011 year it asks the following question:</p>
<p>For 2009, have you completed your IRS income tax return or another tax return?</p>
<p>The confusion I have here is, does that mean have I completed the IRS form for 2009 based on 2008 income or have I completed the 2010 IRS form based on the 2009 income?</p>
<p>It means have you completed your taxes in 2010 for 2009. :))</p>
<p>This is for the 2009 tax year. I have also filled out my husband’s and mine today (FAFSA) this morning. Since we haven’t filed our 2009 tax return yet because there are other documents that we need to wait for to complete the 2009 tax return, we chose “will file” for that question.</p>
<p>If you will be filing but have not yet done so…you choose the “will file” status. When you complete your 2009 taxes (soon after Feb 1) you will go back into the FAFSA site and amend the FAFSA to reflect the numbers from your 2009 tax return…change the status to "taxes completed " (or whatever it is that means you have done your taxes) and resubmit.</p>