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How to answer other parent income tax questions on the FAFSA®
Here’s a guide for how to correctly fill in 2025-26 FAFSA® tax questions for the other parent and add your signature and consent. You or your spouse only need to fill this out if you filed separate tax returns.
Providing consent to transfer federal tax information from the IRS
Why do they need this info?
- For your student to be eligible for federal aid, you have to consent to allow the FAFSA® to import your tax return information directly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for your application. Providing consent also lets you skip the remaining income tax questions on the FAFSA®, making it faster to complete.
Can I skip these questions?
- Not if you want your student to get federal FAFSA® money! You must answer AND provide consent, or your student will be ineligible for federal financial aid.
- Even if you type in your tax return information yourself (which you can do if you decline to provide consent), your student still won’t qualify for federal aid.
How to answer these questions
- For the online application, select “Approve” to consent to transfer federal tax information from the IRS.
- For the paper version, on question 46 check the circle next to “Approval to transfer federal tax information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)”.
- Provide your signature and the date.
Other parent tax return info
Why do they need this info?
- The FAFSA® looks at parent tax returns when figuring out the student’s financial aid eligibility.
- The student’s other parent (the one who did not complete the previous parent tax questions) needs to provide their tax info in this section if you filed separate tax returns.
Can I skip these questions?
- Yes, as long as you provide consent to transfer federal tax information from the IRS.
- Your FAFSA® will not be processed unless you provide this consent.
- On the paper form, you can skip all of question 45 as long as you provide electronic transfer consent in question 46.
- The FAFSA® will import your tax return info into your application once you’ve provided consent.
How to answer these questions
- Check “Consent to transfer federal tax information from the Internal Revenue Service” (question 46, Other Parent Consent and Signature on the paper version).