If Form 2441 needs to be filed with your return, it can be e-filed with your return.
Generally, if you are filing married filing separate and the following items do not apply, you cannot take the child care credit but you can exclude dependent care benefits from your employment from income:
- You lived apart from your spouse during the last 6
months of 2017.
- Your home was the qualifying person's main home for
more than half of 2017.
- You paid more than half of the cost of keeping up that
home for 2017.
