First, if you donu2019t have any income now you donu2019t need to file taxes. Donu2019t worry about next year at this time.If you applying for financial aid then you fill out a FAFSA. If you will be attending college in the Fall you are overdue to file FAFSA. You will want to do that now.For FAFSA, first you and one parent should each get a FSA (Federal Studetn Aid) ID and save your login and password as you will need it each year:https://fsaid.ed.gov/npas/index.htmAfter a couple of days you will be able to fill out FAFSA. The student and the parent each fills out their section. If you have no income your section is easy. For the parent section, the parent will use 2023 taxes to fill it out. Here are all the steps to filling it out, including getting the FSA ID.Filling Out the FAFSAFor the 2017u201318 school year, you will again use 2023 income figures. This is a one time repition. For 2018u201319 use 2023 income. For 2019u201320 use 2023 income.Starting this year, the new schedule is that FAFSA will open in October. So sometimes after October, and before you collegeu2019s deadline (often Jan to Mar), fill out the FAFSA again. Not much will change this time, because as a one time thing, you will again use your own ,zerou2023 2023 income and your parent will use family 2023 income. The only thing that will change is your assets. You report bank accounts and investments as of the day you file.Now if you get a job, you will likely file a 1040EZ form. Very simple. You will get the income statement from your employer by Jan 30 of each year. You should file by April. If you get awarded federal work-study and earn that way, you report that on the FAFSA so you donu2019t get it counted against you. Regular income may be counted toward your EFC but you have to earn more than 6 thousand a year for it to affect aid. Money in your bank account does affect your aid. Student savings is assessed at 20% but parent savings is assessed at only 6%.I want to add something important. If you taxes are already filed, you can import the data from your tax forms into the FAFSA using the DRT (Data Retrieval Tool). Schools like to see this done as they them know the data matches your taxes. So if you have to enter preliminary, non-final taxes to meet a deadline, do the DRT after you file your taxes. It is usually available for use after a few weeks.Filling Out the FAFSA