🚧 J1NTAX is launching soon. These are our launch prices — nothing is on sale yet, and no card is required for anything on this site.

Pricing

Flat fees. Published up front.
Never a percentage of your refund.

Every J1NTAX price is on this page. Your refund goes from the IRS straight to your own bank account — we are never paid out of it.

Form 8843

Free forever

Required for every J-1, even with zero income. No promo, no card.

  • Official IRS Form 8843, filled and ready to mail
  • Works with no income at all
  • Correct part & dates for SWT, Intern and Trainee categories
Notify me when Form 8843 opens

Federal return

$45

Your Form 1040-NR — the return that gets your federal withholding back.

  • Full 1040-NR package incl. Schedule OI (and Schedule A when it helps you)
  • Photo-of-your-W-2 intake, multiple employers supported
  • Tax-treaty check (e.g. India, China) included
  • Form 8843 included free
Coming soon

FICA recovery

$45 on its own

Social Security & Medicare wrongly withheld? That can be real money.

  • $25 when you add it to a federal or state return
  • Sold on its own — you do not have to buy a federal return to claim it
  • Form 843 + Form 8316 package per employer, with mailing checklist
  • "File before you fly" guidance for getting paid from home
Coming soon
Best value — every state included

Everything bundle

$99

Federal + every state you worked in + FICA recovery.

  • Federal 1040-NR return ($45 on its own)
  • Every state you worked in — not one, all of them ($45 each on their own)
  • FICA recovery package ($25 added, $45 on its own)
  • Form 8843 included free
  • Worked in one state: saves you $16. Two states: saves you $61.
Coming soon

State returns — $45 each, or $59 on their own

If your job's state also withheld income tax (W-2 boxes 15–17), you may need a state return too — and often get a state refund back. A state return is $45 added to your federal return, or $59 if you only need the state one. Worked in more than one state? The $99 bundle covers every state you worked in, however many that is.

Some states — including Alaska, Florida and Texas — have no individual income tax at all, so there is nothing to file and nothing to pay us for. We will tell you that plainly rather than sell you a return you do not need. If we do not support your state yet, we say so clearly instead of guessing.

The math on a typical season

Suppose you worked in two states and your return comes to an $800 federal refund plus $918 of recoverable FICA. Bought separately that is $45 federal + $45 + $45 for the two states + $25 FICA = $160. The bundle is a flat $99, and both refunds are paid directly to you.

Illustration only — your refund depends entirely on your own wages and withholding, and no refund amount is guaranteed. Try your own numbers in the refund calculator.