<p>I filed CSS Profile and submitted last week.
However, when I was reviewing the paper today, I came up with these questions:</p>
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<li><p>Under Parents' Income & Benefits section, what does "Enter the wages, salaries, commissions, and tips your parents received during their country's most recent tax year" exactly mean?(Let's call this question A) I originally added both of my parents' income and put down here and wrote them separately on "Enter the income parent 1/parent 2 earned or expects to earn from work during his or her country's most recent tax year." section.(Let's call these question B and C). In other words, my answers to question A is the addition of question B and C and they overlap! Are they suppose to do that? Or was I supposed to put down 0 for question A if my parents are self-business owners?</p></li>
<li><p>If I did it wrong, I can I make a change to CSS profiles I already submitted?</p></li>
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<p>This is freaking me out now. Thank you so much!!!</p>
<p>My CSS Profile is a little different in that it’s for American students, but the questions are similar regarding the parents’ combined income, and then each parent’s income listed separately. That is correct. Yes, they overlap, but the subsequent questions just break down how much each parent contributed to that combined income figure.</p>
<p>As to how that relates to a business, I do not know… but you are correct in assuming that question “A” is a combined figure, and questions “B” and “C” do overlap the numbers reported in question “A”.</p>
<p>mi70com,
I studied the same question (wages, tips etc), knowing too that we have very small business income in addition to W2 statements of wages etc. We are in the US. I did not know the answer as whether to separate out the business to a different place on the CSS form, so I tabled it to do more research and reflection. </p>
<p>From your first post, it does sound like adding the separate parental incomes was not the intent: seems to me I recall you listed each parent and then their wages, income tips, and then their business income on a different line.</p>
<p>Now that your CSS is submitted, I believe I read other posters’ advise is to obtain your finalized 2009 tax forms, then resubmit the CSS to each college applied to with the penned in corrections. I do not believe you may ever “correct” the original CSS once it is submitted. But you can correct it and send it certified to your colleges financial aid office.</p>
<p>It is somewhat confusing. Good luck to you.</p>