If my child goes to college in a different state and registers to vote in that state, can I still claim him as a dependent? I still support him financially and he comes home for winter and summer breaks.
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Is your college student under the age of 24? If your college student still comes home for school breaks, etc. you can still consider the kid to live with you---living away at school is only a "temporary absence." Where they vote is not relevant to that.
Here is the criteria to determine if you can claim your child as a dependent:
WHO CAN I CLAIM AS A DEPENDENT?
You can claim a child, relative, friend, or fiancé (etc.) as a dependent on your 2023 taxes as long as they meet the following requirements:
Qualifying child
Qualifying relative
When you add someone as a dependent, we'll ask a series of questions to make sure you can claim them. There may be other tax benefits you can get when you claim a dependent.
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@xmasbaby0 just for future posts, "related to you" is not the relationship test criteria for Qualifying Child.
here is the criteria:
Relationship Test: your bio, step or foster child, or your bio, step or half sibling, incl. descendants of these children or these siblings
so nieces and nephews would qualify, but cousins would not.
further, under Qualifying Relative - the other criteria is that they can't be a Qualifying Child.
Interesting.....since that verbiage comes straight from a TT FAQ
@xmasbaby0 yes, interesting indeed
See page 11 - "test to be a Qualifying Child" - item 1
"The child must be your son, daughter, stepchild, foster child, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, stepbrother, or stepsister, or a descendant of any of them."
so nieces and nephews count (since they are descendants of the bolded relationships), but cousins do not count as they are not listed!
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