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swiss-list: federal taxes: disadvantage of filing as a resident?

From: Stefan Marti <click for textversion of email address >
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:45:42 -0400 (EDT)
Status: RO

hi everybody,

i am a 2nd year grad student and RA at MIT, and i have the following
question: everybody seems to try to be a non-resident for federal tax
purposes (substantial presence test, 5-year exemption to it, etc.). i
could be considered as a non-resident (and that's indeed what i filed for
last year). however, if i would file as a resident instead of a
non-resident, i would pay much less taxes (in the range of 500$ less).
 
is there a DISADVANTAGE of being considered as a USA resident for federal
tax purposes?
 
thanks a lot!
 
-stefan

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