Can I claim my child on my taxes if I didn't work?
you can claim her, you just may not get as much back since you didn't pay in any through working.
How do you find out who claimed your child on taxes?
You don't, because that information is confidential.If you are entitled to claim your child as a dependent, but your e-filed return is rejected because someone else has claimed the child, your best option is to hire a professional EA or CPA who is qualified to represent you before the IRS. You can either e-file a return without claiming the dependent child and then file an amended return with the claim (the route I generally prefer because it protects you from possible penalties later), or file a paper return claiming the child as a dependent. Your representative will then argue your claim before the IRS. If the IRS agrees with you, then the IRS will contact the other party and inform that individual that their return is being adjusted because of your superior right to claim the child (and that person will owe additional taxes).Publication 501 (2015), Exemptions, Standard Deduction, and Filing Information on the IRS Web site describes how you determine whether you qualify to claim your child’s exemption.
Can i claim my 18 y.o. Son on my taxes?
By law the custodial parent normally gets the exemption and all other tax benefits. Since your decree is pre-2009 the IRS will honor it if it meets strict federal guidelines on language and does not place any preconditions on the exemption such as being current on support or visitation. The non-custodial parent must attach copies of the relevant pages from the decree to their tax return to claim the child. They ONLY get the exemption and the Child Tax Credit. All other tax benefits such as filing as Head of Household, the EIC and Child Care Credit (irrelevant at your son's age) remain with you as the custodial parent. If the decree does not meet federal guidelines the IRS will not allow the other parent to claim the child without a completed and signed Form 8332 from you. The non-custodial parent must attach that to their tax return to claim the child. Again, that only gets the non-custodial parent the exemption and the CTC. All other tax benefits remain with you as noted above. A child is a dependent if they are under age 19 as of the end of the tax year or are under age 24 if a full time student for any part of any 5 months during the year and they don't provide more than half of their OWN support. The amount of support provided by the parents is irrelevant, with one exception. In the case of children of divorced or separated parents (including parents that never married) the parents must provide more than half of the child's support between them for the child to be a dependent. Since you are entitled to file as HoH (if otherwise eligible) and claim the EIC, you might want to consider amending any prior year returns for the years that you did not claim the child if you didn't claim those tax benefits if you were eligible to do so. Tax years 2012 - 2014 are still open for refunds. See IRS Pub 501 (link below) for further information.
Can you claim your child on taxes if you have no job?
NO not when you do not NOT have any amounts of qualified EARNED income that you did have to work for to earn for this purpose and time in your life. You would NOT get any amount at all during the 2014 tax filing season for your 2013 FIT tax return filing at all. Since you and your child are still living at home with your mother in her house during the 2013 tax year then your mother should be able to qualify to claim you and your child on her correctly completed 1040 FIT return for the 2013 tax year during the 2014 tax filing season. And any REFUND amount does belong to your MOTHER when it is her own 1040 FIT return that you did have to sign during the 2014 tax filing season for this purpose and time in your life. Hope that you find the above enclosed information useful. 01/20/2014
Claiming my child on tax return and cps?
I have an open cps case b/c my baby dad was a drug addict. Even though he is better we only have visitation rights until we complete some classes. we see him everyday when I get out of wk and im with him when I dont work. We just cant sleep where my son sleeps. He lives with my father in law we live with with my mother in law. I buy him clothes, toys,anything he needs, my son is on foodstamps so I get him food I give him baths ex. My question is can I claim him w/ an open cps case?
My child was claimed on taxes by his mother, but I was supposed to claim him. What can I do?
OK, here’s the simple version. 1) IF you have legal custody and the child spends *AT LEAST* 183 days of the calendar year with you, barring a judicial order otherwise, you can legally claim your child. 2) IF there is a legal order stating that his other parent can claim him, you can’t do jack until said order is removed. 3) IF you share joint custody equally, you have to work out an arrangement that clearly states who can claim said child and on what year(s). There is an IRS form that allows the custodial parent to state 1)What Years, 2) IF AT ALL, that the child(ren) in question can be claimed.Now let’s work on the hypothesis that your ex illegally claimed your child. You have to 1) Prepare full documentation that you are the legal guardian, 2) Prepare secondary documentation that proves you as the primary care giver, school records, medical records, 3) You will have to file an amended paper return *after* your original return was rejected.This is not a simple, easy or straight forward process, the time frame till you get the refund will be months. And sadly, NO, the IRS will not care and will allow your ex to do the same in the future. I’ve seen it in the past, in one case for three years running with the same client. No system is perfect.