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Schedule LEP (Form 1040) (Rev. 12-2023) Page 2
Future Developments Name
For the latest developments related to Schedule LEP, see Enter the name exactly as it appears on your tax return.
www.irs.gov/ScheduleLEP. Joint Return
Purpose of Form If you and your spouse are filing a joint return, file a Schedule
LEP with your tax return for each spouse who prefers an
The IRS is committed to providing taxpayers with limited English alternative language. If both spouses would prefer to receive
proficiency meaningful access to information regarding their written communications in an alternative language other than
taxpayer rights and responsibilities. Use Schedule LEP to English, file a separate form for each spouse, even if both
request written communications from the IRS in an alternative spouses prefer the same alternative language.
language.
Social Security Number (SSN)
Basic information about filing your return and paying
taxes is available in different languages. See The SSN entered on this form should match the SSN listed on
TIP www.irs.gov/MyLanguage. your tax return. If you’re married and file a joint return, enter the
SSN only of the spouse making the request. If you’re a
Written communications. Different forms of written nonresident or resident alien and you don’t have and aren’t
communications are issued by the IRS, such as correspondence eligible to get an SSN, you must apply for an individual taxpayer
and other printed material. These may include notifications sent identification number (ITIN). To obtain an ITIN, you must
to an individual taxpayer, including formal letters and notices, as complete Form W-7, Application for IRS Individual Taxpayer
well as general correspondence, tax forms, instructions, or Identification Number. If you already have an ITIN, enter it
publications. Generally, any inserts enclosed with the written wherever your SSN is requested. See www.irs.gov/ITIN.
communication will also be provided in the requested language. Line 1
You may not immediately receive written Select one of the listed languages if you would prefer to receive
communications in the requested language. The IRS’s future written communications in that language. Select only one
▲! commitment to LEP taxpayers is part of a multiyear of the listed options by checking the appropriate box. If you
CAUTION timeline that is scheduled to begin providing would like to cancel a previous election, select English and file a
translations in 2023. You will continue to receive new Schedule LEP with the return for a subsequent tax year.
communications, including notices and letters, in English until Your selection will be effective for future written communications,
they are translated to your preferred language. including correspondence with respect to other tax years, until
the selection is changed or cancelled.
Who Can File
Schedule LEP is not mandatory but can be filed with a tax return Special assistance is available for persons with limited
English proficiency. If you’re unable to complete your
by taxpayers with limited English proficiency to indicate their TIP tax return, you may be able to obtain assistance from
language of preference for IRS-issued written communications the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance or Tax
or change their language of preference. Counseling for the Elderly programs sponsored by the IRS. See
How To File www.irs.gov/VITA.
File Schedule LEP with your income tax return. You can state
this preference only by filing Schedule LEP with your income tax
return. If you e-file Schedule LEP with your tax return, don’t file
the paper version of this form. See www.irs.gov/efile. File
Schedule LEP with your current year tax return or any
subsequent year returns, but not any year prior to 2020.
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