Puerto Rico filing requirements

[TaxSisLaura]

Hello! I'm having a heck of a time finding anything on PR's Hacienda website for the criteria my client fits. My client's in her 80's, receives a pension from the U.S. and has interest earned within PR. She has no other income. I believe she still has to file a return in PR (though she did not have to for the IRS; she is below the minimum filing requirement), but I can't find the 2018 instructions in English so they are not jumbled up. I speak and read Spanish, but am not an expert on tax-related Spanish.

So, if anyone has a copy of the Form 482 (which is, I believe, the correct form for her to file) in both English and Spanish and the instructions in both languages so that I can prepare these to see if she meets the filing requirements, can you please either provide me a link to them or send them to me via email. You can PM me for my business email ID. I need all the help I can get, please, because I downloaded the forms in both languages from PR's Hacienda site and they have watermarks on them, preventing me from filing her returns on them. I don't mind efiling them through their site, but I need to be able to read everything in the instructions and compare the forms in both languages to know what has to be filled on on it. That's a ridiculously long 49 page form. What are they thinking having one tax form for every circumstance that long???

Anyway, as I said, I'm in dire need of help, so nothing is too little to help me.

Thank you!

Laura

[TaxGuyBill]

Here is the page with links to the form and instructions in English.

However, if she is required to file, I don't think you are allowed to do it. A Paid Preparer needs to be licensed (see page 14 of the instructions).

http://www.hacienda.pr.gov/documento...ome-tax-return

[Lion]

Yep, you have to be a licensed Hacienda preparer. I've heard that HRB has many in FL.