If I understand you, you are asking if you can claim the Dependent Care Credit for the money you paid your brother to babysit your kids.
The answer is Yes, you can. To enter information in the TurboTax online, here are the steps:
- Sign in to your account, select Pick up where you left off
- At the right upper corner, search for child care credit, then select "Jump to" link
- Follow prompts
If your brother babysat in your house, technically he is considered as a household employee. However, since he meets one of the exceptions, you might not need to file Schedule H. See https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040sh.pdf, page H-4. To verify if you need to file the Schedule H in the program, click here: How to enter schedule H
If he babysat at his place, he is considered self-employed and must pay social security and medicare tax in the form of self-employment tax by filing his own taxes.
For more information about the household employees, click here https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040sh, under "Did you have a household employee?"
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