Lecture Content

This lecture covers taxability of wages, tip income, and fringe benefits as well as how to claim the foreign earned income exclusion.

Topics Covered

* Identifying who is an employee
* Form W-4 - Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate
* Detailed overview of Form W-2 - Wage Tax Statement
* Identifying taxable wages
* Taxable and nontaxable fringe benefits
* Reporting wage income and tips
* Rules for reporting allocated tips
* Preparation of Form 4137 - Social Security and Medicare Tax on Unreported Tip Income
* Taxable scholarship and fellowship income
* Fulbright grants
* Figuring and reporting the taxable part of state and local refunds
* Reporting unemployment compensation
* Rules for identifying and reporting taxable alimony income
* Reporting gambling winnings
* Reporting cancelled debt
* Cancellation of debt in principal residence
* Situations in which cancelled debt may not be taxable
* Preparation of Form 982 - Reduction of Tax Attributes Due to Discharge of Indebtedness (and Section 1082 Basis Adjustment)
* Who can claim the foreign earned income exclusion
* Bona fide resident and physical presence tests
* Form 2555 - Foreign Earned Income Exclusion

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Pacific Northwest Tax School is approved by the following organizations as a provider of continuing education:

* The IRS
* NASBA QAS (NASBA Sponsor #109290),
* Oregon Tax Board,
* The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy (Texas Sponsor #009794)
* The New York State Board for Public Accountancy (Sponsor License #002479)

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