Thank you for the detail answers.
To clarify:
if your income is too high to claim a dependent credit,
and your child will not owe taxes because they won't earn enough to owe,
is it OK to NOT claim the child so that they can indicate that they will not be claimed on anyone else's taxes,
so that they might claim the AOTC?
if they won't owe taxes, am I understanding correctly that they cannot receive the refundable portion of the AOTC? why is this?
(there seems to be no benefit to me in claiming the child as a dependent, so if the child could get the refundable portion of the AOTC by saying they aren't going to be claimed on my taxes, that would be an overall benefit). Thank you
And again, just because I CAN claim the child doesn't mean I must?
