Arkansas Individual Income Tax Forms And Instructions Short Booklet Full Year Resident Only

NOTE: If the box on the front of the AR1000S is not checked, you

Amended return needed:

•

to make changes or adjustments to your original return

will not receive credit for your federal extension.

•

if the IRS examines your federal return for any tax year and

If you do not file a Federal Extension, you may file an Arkansas exten-

changes your net taxable income (required to file an Arkansas

amended return within 90 days of notification)

sion using Form AR1055 before the filing due date of April 15

Send your request to:

Amended return not needed:

to correct an address (you must provide a completed

Individual Income Tax Section

•

ATTN: Extension

Individual Income Tax Account Change Form located on

P.O. Box 3628

our website at )

to correct a Social Security Number (Call (501) 682-

Little Rock, AR 72203-3628

•

1100 or write to Individual Income Tax Section, P.O. Box 3628,

NOTE: The maximum extension that will be granted on an AR1055

Little Rock, AR 72203. You may be asked to provide documenta-

is one hundred and eighty (180) days extending the due

tion.)

date until October 15

•

if you are notified by the Income Tax Section that there is an error

on your original return

Interest and Failure to Pay Penalty will be due if any tax

•

if filing a federal amended return with no impact on your Arkansas

due is not paid by April 15, 2014.

income tax return

The date of the postmark stamped by the U.S. Postal Service is the

date you filed your request for extension.

FILING STATUS

Check the box on AR1000S to indicate you have a state extension

or your return will be considered delinquent and penalties will be

assessed.

DETERMINE YOUR FILING STATUS

Inability to pay is not a valid reason to request an ex-

BOX 1

Filing Status 1 (Single)

tension.

Check this box if you are SINGLE or UNMARRIED and DO NOT

qualify as Head of Household. (Read the section for “Box 3” to de-

H. HOW TO COMPLETE YOUR ARKANSAS

termine if you qualify for Head of Household.)

RETURN

BOX 2

Filing Status 2 (Married Filing Joint)

STAPLE all required W-2 Form(s) to your return. Use only BLUE

or BLACK ink, or type.

Check this box if you are MARRIED and filing jointly. If you are filing

a joint return, you must add both spouses’ incomes together. Enter

If you received your income tax booklet through the mail and there

the total amount in Column A on Line 8 through Line 11 under “Your/

is a colored peel off label inside, use the label only if all the informa-

Joint Income.”

tion on it is correct. If it is not correct or you do not have a label,

enter the name and address of you and your spouse. You MUST

enter your Social Security Number(s) on your return in

BOX 3

Filing Status 3 (Head of Household)

the space provided, or your return cannot be processed

and will be returned to you.

Enter the telephone number for

To claim Head of Household you must have been unmarried or legally

your home and your work.

separated on December 31, 2013 and meet either 1 or 2 below.

FILING AN AMENDED RETURN

You paid over half the cost of keeping up a home for the entire

year that was the main home of your parent whom you can claim

If filing an amended return, check the box at the top right corner

as a dependent. Your parent did not have to live with you in your

of Form AR1000S. Complete the return using the following instruc-

home, or

tions, replacing the incorrect entries from your original return with

the corrected entries. Attach an explanation and supporting

You paid over half the cost of keeping a home in which you lived

forms and/or schedules for items changed. (Do not file

and in which one of the following also lived for more than six (6)

an amended return until after your original return has

months of the year (temporary absences such as vacation or

been processed.)

school are counted as time lived in the home):

Your unmarried child, grandchild, great-grandchild, adopted

child, or stepchild. (This child did not have to be your de-

pendent, but your foster child must have been your depen-

dent.)

Your married child, grandchild, adopted child, or stepchild.

(This child must have been your dependent.)

Any other relative whom you could claim as a dependent.

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