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Old Aug 15, 2016 | 5:36 am
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Originally Posted by invisible
...because he is US tax resident (do not know his residency/citizenship status).
Schooling is obviously a Singaporean. Apparently, he is in the U.S. with a F-1 visa, which IRS has explicitly excluded all F visa holders for tax treatments as residents.

So unless the prize is generated from the U.S., he will not subject to the IRS jurisdiction.
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