University of California, Irvine

Submitting Tax and Income Information or Verification of Tax Non-filing

If your financial aid file is selected for verification, you/your parent(s) must submit 2018 tax and income information using one of the two options below if you/they were required by the IRS to file one (unless a Puerto Rican tax return was filed).

Dependent Students: If your parents did not file a 2018 tax return and were not required by the IRS to file one, they must instead request a verification of non-filing letter as proof from the IRS (must be dated on or after October 1, 2019).

Independent Students: If you did not file a 2018 tax return and were not required by the IRS to file one, you must instead request a verification of non-filing letter as proof from the IRS (must be dated on or after October 1, 2019).

NOTE TO CALIFORNIA DREAM APPLICANTS:

If you filed a California Dream Application, you cannot use OPTION 1 below to submit tax information. Rather, you must use OPTION 2 further down this page to request and submit a tax return transcript.

OPTION 1 - IRS Data Retrieval from FAFSA

We strongly recommend your parents import their tax information using the IRS Data Retrieval Tool on FAFSA on the Web. This is the preferred method for you to supply tax and income information to our office and will speed the processing of your financial aid.

This video tutorial will help you update your FAFSA using the DRT:

OPTION 2 - IRS Tax Return Transcript

If you/your parents are not eligible to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, or choose not to use it, you/your parent(s) must request a 2018 Federal income tax return transcript from the IRS and submit it to our office.

If you/your parents filed a joint return and are now separated, divorced, widowed or remarried, you/they must submit a Federal income tax return transcript AND all W-2 forms.

Tax return transcripts may be requested from the IRS in the following ways:

Verification of Non-Filing

Dependent Students: If your parents did not file a 2018 tax return and were not required by the IRS to file one, they must request a verification of non-filing letter as proof from the IRS (must be dated on or after October 1, 2019).

Independent students: If you did not file a 2018 tax return and were not required by the IRS to file one, you must request a verification of non-filing letter as proof from the IRS (must be dated on or after October 1, 2019).

A verification of non-filing letter may be requested from the IRS in the following ways:

We strongly recommend you start the process of obtaining your tax and income information or verification of non-filing at least a week before the deadline. This is because you may discover you are ineligible to use the Data Retrieval Tool and/or unable to instantly obtain a tax transcript or verification of non-filing online. If this occurs, you may need to have the IRS mail you your information and it can take 5-10 days to receive it.

Once you receive your transcript/non-filing letter, fax a copy to the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships at (949) 824-4876 or mail one to our office at:

IMPORTANT: Please make sure to write the student's name and UCI ID# at the top of the first page of the document.

NOTE: The Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships does not accept documents as email attachments.

(Revised 12/13/2019 - BS)