Islam, Africa and the Dialogue of Civilizations, An Interdisciplinary Roundtable with the Participation of Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, Ali A. Mazrui, John Esposito, Marnia Lazreg, John Azumah on April 21 4-6pm in Lecture Hall 10. This date might be confusing, because the local media has written that the deadline for filing your tax returns, if you live in New York State, is Tuesday, April 17. However, the Tuesday, April 17 deadline applies ONLY to those who file as residents for tax purposes, because New Yorkers file their federal tax forms in Andover, Massachusetts, where Monday is a state holiday. Non-residents for tax purposes, who file their federal forms in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have the Monday deadline. If you earned no income from employment during 2000 and are a non-resident for tax purposes, your filing deadline for 2000 tax forms is June 15, 2001.
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Students sometime ask whether there are any consequences to not filing tax forms. There can be immigration consequences for failing to file tax forms. A person who appears at a U.S. consulate abroad for consular processing of a permanent residency visa application may be asked to produce U.S. income tax forms from their previous years in the U.S. 5. The Associated Press reports that the bewildering complexity of tax law continues to be the most serious and burdensome problem facing American tax payers. The most basic aspects of tax law, are complicated and contain exceptions and special rules that many tax payers do not understand.