F1- OPT - Resident Alien - Social Security and Medicare taxes in the USA
Personal Finance & Money Asked by PHcoDer on March 23, 2021
Please don’t confuse it with answer here. Mine is not a duplicate question.
If I am on F1 (non-immigrant student) visa and doing my OPT (1st year not the STEM extension) or I am a full time student (still on F1 visa) and have acquired the resident alien status for the tax purposes. Do I have to pay the social security and medicare taxes? I am a bit confused. Based on the screenshot pasted below from this IRS page, I think I don’t need to pay. However, this answer on turbotax says that I need to. Please advice.
One Answer
If you are working on campus in the school where you are studying, you are exempt from FICA on that work even if you are a resident alien or US citizen. See this page for more details.
If you are working on OPT, you are probably working off-campus, so this exception wouldn't apply. Also, if you are working full-time, the exception doesn't apply. So I think you have to pay FICA taxes if you are a resident alien.
Answered by user102008 on March 23, 2021
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