You may use 1040EZ if you meet all of the following requirements: your filing status is single or married filing jointly; you claim no dependents; you, and your spouse if filing a joint return, were under age 65 on January 1, 2011, and not blind at the end of 2010; you have only wages, salaries, tips, taxable scholarship and fellowship grants, unemployment compensation, qualified state tuition program earnings, or Alaska Permanent Fund dividends, and your taxable interest was not over $1,500; your taxable income is less than $100,000; your earned tips, if any, are included in boxes 5 and 7 of your Form W-2; you did not receive any advance earned income credit payments; you do not owe any household employment taxes on wages you paid to a household employee; you are not a debtor in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed after October 16, 2005; you are not claiming the additional standard deduction for real estate taxes, net disaster losses, or qualified motor vehicle taxes; you do not claim a student loan interest deduction, an educator expense deduction, or a tuition and fees deduction, and you do not claim an education credit, retirement savings contributions credit, or a health coverage tax credit.