IRS 1040 Form 2016-2021

Hello everybody and welcome and this is just going to be a basic explanation going through each of the parts of the 1040 form explaining what to do when each of those parts you might feel like you're lost in a maze sometimes we're looking at your tax forms but the 1040 form really isn't that complicated if you just break it down into its parts so that's what we're gonna do so first look the 1040 form you'll see a heading which will tell you that it's the 1040 up here and then you'll also see the year the descent or he's one of the update the form and every year usually there's not a bunch of big updates but sometimes it is you want to make sure you're using with up-to-date 1040 form okay now the first couple boxes are pretty self-explanatory you're going to be filling out the tax year that you're currently ending your first name and initial thing your last name if it's a joint return spouses information your home address and your say town and state if you're in a country all that foreign country information next you're gonna have your final in status so filing status will tell you if you're single married filing jointly and household qualifying widower we have a video on filing status it'll be linked in the description below but that will explain you exactly what your filing status is and you check whichever box your filing status is when you're filling out your return now exemptions again we have a video on exemption below and you can see the link below what exemptions are where you'll be claiming this section here and it's money that you'll be deducting from the amount for the income of you have so you'll have a lower overall tax burden so you'll have to put in each of your dependents so anyone who qualifies as it attendant that's on that same video that's linked in the description below you can put them first name last name and then you'll have to have Music so for these boxes you're gonna see the defense treaty number you have to have the kind of social security number it doesn't have a social security number you have to get an ITIN number but there have to have some verification number showing that qualifies you for the exemption you also are gonna have to write dependence relationship to you so there's qualified relationships together to see the video in the description below if the child is under the age of 17 and therefore qualifies for the child tax credit and you'll see I'll make a video later on and I'll link that eventually don't have one yet but you'll see about the child tax credit next up the next section is income so income is where you're going to put all the money making made this year the first line of income is line seven in line.