Payroll FAQ - NRA - Glacier

As a foreign national, you may already know how daunting understanding your tax obligations can be. That's why the university has provided you with a program called Glacier.  Glacier is a web-based computer program that provides a "beginning to end" tax compliance solution.  Once the university determines that you are a nonresident alien, you will receive an email to your osu.edu email address directing you to the Glacier website (www.online-tax.net(link is external)) with a username and password for entry.  After asking a few simple questions, the Glacier program will determine your taxation.

The Glacier system does the following:

• Makes tax residency, withholding, and income tax treaty determinations
• Provides all taxation paperwork
• Manages all paperwork
• Maintains individual taxation data and individual tax treaty data
• Provides year-end taxation documents
• Provides a process for completing a Federal tax return online (paper submission of the forms is required)