WELCOME TO OUR FORUMS!
Log In or Register to ask questions, get notified when others respond, and find answers from your fellow freedom seekers!
Be sure to Subscribe to the New Topics and Posts so that you will get the notifications. To keep the forum healthy, objective, and functional, please remember our Rules of Conduct:
- No abusive or slanderous language is allowed.
- Professional conduct and communication is expected of you.
- No sharing offensive or inappropriate material.
- No spamming.
My Experience with the Process
Quote from Qoztek on April 16, 2026, 11:59 amA friend recommended this website to me, as well as some other information sources. I read up on it all and did the affidavit, notices, and IRS refunds. It took a year to go from the affidavit to receiving my federal refund check. I live in Idaho, so I had to cancel my voter registration; only US citizens can vote in Idaho. Each state is different. But voting isn't wotrh 10-25% in my opinion.
The instructions on I believe the 1040-X say to leave the first page blank if you are amending a paper 1040-NR, but I found out that that does not apply if you are amending a 1040 into a 1040-NR. So I had to go back and forth with the Tax Advocacy Service and eventually fill out the entire 1040-X.
The IRS did not issue refunds for the 3 previous tax years, and my friend said that no one he knows has ever received refunds on those.
In dealing with the Idaho State Tax Commission, they audited me and sent me a Notice of Deficiency Determination. I had an informal hearing with them over the phone and explained why I had no Idaho-source income. They didn't question my nonresident alien tax status; they only questioned whether my income was Idaho-source. I recommend not messing with state income tax until after you get all your federal money refunded, or else everything takes longer. I gave them a copy of my transcripts with federal refunds and I am waiting for their response. Most states have very similar tax codes, so your state might be like this.
I am a W-2 employee. I gave my company the documents to stop tax withholdings and they stopped withholding federal and state, but they continued to withhold social security. I wasn't sure how to proceed, so I left it like that. I found out that you can file an abatement request to get your social security withholdings refunded, but my friend recommended to let a guinea pig do it first in case anything complicated happens. I'm not aware thta any of his friends have successfully completed this abatement process.
Both the IRS website and the Idaho website have a lot of examples of frivolous tax arguments, instructing the their agents to disregard those arguments. Many of them are very close to what we as Nationals would say. But when I looked up all the case law references, they all referred to people making these arguments who either filed 1040s and W-4s, or the state equivalent, or people who made up their own forms and sent those in. So they don't apply to us.
My friend mentioned that you can get a nonresident alien bank account if you go to your bank and give them your W8-BEN. His W8-BEN was stamped as received by the IRS somehow. I have not attempted this yet.
I have been on a few flights and I have not had any incidents of people treating me in a special way.
A friend recommended this website to me, as well as some other information sources. I read up on it all and did the affidavit, notices, and IRS refunds. It took a year to go from the affidavit to receiving my federal refund check. I live in Idaho, so I had to cancel my voter registration; only US citizens can vote in Idaho. Each state is different. But voting isn't wotrh 10-25% in my opinion.
The instructions on I believe the 1040-X say to leave the first page blank if you are amending a paper 1040-NR, but I found out that that does not apply if you are amending a 1040 into a 1040-NR. So I had to go back and forth with the Tax Advocacy Service and eventually fill out the entire 1040-X.
The IRS did not issue refunds for the 3 previous tax years, and my friend said that no one he knows has ever received refunds on those.
In dealing with the Idaho State Tax Commission, they audited me and sent me a Notice of Deficiency Determination. I had an informal hearing with them over the phone and explained why I had no Idaho-source income. They didn't question my nonresident alien tax status; they only questioned whether my income was Idaho-source. I recommend not messing with state income tax until after you get all your federal money refunded, or else everything takes longer. I gave them a copy of my transcripts with federal refunds and I am waiting for their response. Most states have very similar tax codes, so your state might be like this.
I am a W-2 employee. I gave my company the documents to stop tax withholdings and they stopped withholding federal and state, but they continued to withhold social security. I wasn't sure how to proceed, so I left it like that. I found out that you can file an abatement request to get your social security withholdings refunded, but my friend recommended to let a guinea pig do it first in case anything complicated happens. I'm not aware thta any of his friends have successfully completed this abatement process.
Both the IRS website and the Idaho website have a lot of examples of frivolous tax arguments, instructing the their agents to disregard those arguments. Many of them are very close to what we as Nationals would say. But when I looked up all the case law references, they all referred to people making these arguments who either filed 1040s and W-4s, or the state equivalent, or people who made up their own forms and sent those in. So they don't apply to us.
My friend mentioned that you can get a nonresident alien bank account if you go to your bank and give them your W8-BEN. His W8-BEN was stamped as received by the IRS somehow. I have not attempted this yet.
I have been on a few flights and I have not had any incidents of people treating me in a special way.