File your U.S. taxes in under 10 minutes.

Built for international students. Upload your documents, we do the rest. No manual data entry, no $50 filing fees.

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TaxBuddy — your completed 1040-NR ready to download

Filing taxes as an international student is broken.

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Expensive, complicated self-prep software

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TurboTax is residents-only

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$300+ for a local tax consultant

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Left to figure it out alone, with barely any one to help

There's finally a better way

How it works

From documents to a filed return in four steps.

1Upload

Upload your documents

Just add your W-2, 1099, I-20 and I-94. We handle messy scans and phone photos automatically.

Your documents

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2Process

AI-powered extraction

No manual entry. AI extracts every field automatically from your tax documents.

Employer NameAcme Corp.
Wages & Tips$95,000.00
Federal Tax$18,500.00
3Confirm

Confirm a few details

We ask a handful of quick questions to confirm your status from the documents.

Confirm your status
Are you an F-1 visa student?checkYes
Were you in the U.S. 5 years or less?checkYes
Filing as a nonresident (1040-NR)?checkYes
4File

Ready to send

Get a filled 1040-NR, ready to print and mail. We provide clear instructions for every university office.

Estimated refund

$1,250.00
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IRS Form 1040-NR

Ready to print & mail

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See it in action

Full walkthrough ~ 2 minutes

Security & privacy

Your data stays yours.

Handing over your W-2, your passport and your SSN takes trust. Here is exactly what happens to them — and what never does.

Encrypted in transit and at rest

Every upload travels over an encrypted connection and is stored encrypted on disk, in a private bucket that isn't reachable from the open internet. Your W-2 never becomes a public link, an email attachment, or a shared folder.

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Box 1 wages 95,000.00 · Box 2 federal tax 18,500.008f3a91c7d2 04be55a1f9 7c2d8e40ab 19f6c3aa7d 5b0e2f91

Every provider we use, and what they receive, is named in our privacy notice, and each rule above is broken down in security & compliance.

Why we built TaxBuddy.

We're two international students. We worked, invested, and traded in the U.S. and every tax season we were stuck: friends couldn't legally help, online services charged $50+ per filing, and doing it alone risked leaving unclaimed money on the table. So we built the tool we wished we had.

—EvansLearn more about Evans ↗,JonathanLearn more about Jonathan ↗

Have any questions? Talk to us.

Frequently asked questions

TaxBuddy is built specifically for non-resident aliens in the U.S., including international students on F, J, M, and Q visas, who need to file Form 1040-NR.

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