Hi, I am a US citizen living in South Korea with my husband who is a Korean citizen. I am currently an unemployed housewife that has made $199 in royalties (received a 1099 MISC) from Twitch streaming that I do as a hobby(I will be filing this income as a hobby and not a business). I for the life of me cannot find a free or inexpensive e-file tax program that doesn't requires my spouse's non-existent US SSN.

At the moment I am trying to file with Tax Slayer but they require me to fill out my spouse's info (and there's no button or anything to click that the spouse is an NRA) I had the same trouble with Turbo Tax. These e-filing programs seem to just automatically assume your spouse is a US citizen. We tried just putting in his Korean SSN but they are 13 digits long and the program only allows 9 digits.

The only filing site I've found that seems to allow the option that the spouse is an NRA is H&R Block but the minimum filing is $99 ($400 on Taxes for Expats website!) and I'm sorry but I'm not paying $99 to file on a yearly income of $199.... And on top of that, I'd assume I will be paying a bit of tax off the $199 income.

I originally thought I would not have to file taxes as I had made less than $400 but apparently, the limit for royalties is $10. This wouldn't be such a big deal if I could just simply file online. So does anyone know of any free or low-cost e-file programs that would allow me to file without needing my spouse's non-existent US SSN?

I would really like to avoid filing by paper mail as last time it cost $25 just to mail (i had filed taxes on $0 income to receive the stimulus check) and that was 2 years ago so I'd imagine the shipping price has gone up substantially since then.