I’ll be joining the Military in a few months and it will require a TS/SCI. I assume that process starts after BMT(Air Force/Air National Guard). I messed up my taxes and had to file an amended return for 2018 as well as had filed and pay a local tax in 2017 and 2018.
I did not like this mistake and took two tax prep courses to ensure this doesn’t happen again. Both came with a Certificate of Completion. When can I give them these? Do I do that after BMT? Do I bring a flash drive to BMT with these? Do I attach them to my SF86 with an explanation? What if I do the e quip? Is there a way to attach them electronically?
I’m sure that they will take these during an interview but I think that you are overthinking this. An amended return isn’t a big deal, they are incredibly common. As I stated here recently, the government isn’t looking for perfect people. They are looking for honest people.
I’m just trying my best I suppose. Scares me at the thought of going enlisted for 6 years at a certain job, failing the clearance and then getting some bum job for 6 years.
Yeah I failed to pay my local taxes in 2017 and 2018 because I was under the impression you are taxed where you work, not where you live, but my local city was a little different. When I received a letter I fixed the issue asap though.
But did you file the local tax where your worked on time? Or did you not file at all? If it is the first, I still think it’s a non issue because you did pay state/city and federal taxes but mistakenly paid to the wrong state/city and corrected this through a tax amendment.
However if you failed to file altogether and fixing this now, that’s a different story.
I work in one city. That tax is automatically deducted from my paycheck. So I’ve always paid for the city I worked in. I found out about my failure to pay 2017 and 2018 local taxes about a month ago and I sent payment and they filed and finalized it. I was not aware I needed to pay tax in the city that I lived, just that I pay tax in the city I work.