@global77 wrote:
@xmasbaby0 I apologize for not being clear enough, yes, she was full-time student and age over 18 but short of 19 in 2020.
After going through yours and @Opus 17 replies, would it be fine if I do as follows:
1) In your first reply, you wrote as "If your child is not your dependent then you have no reason to enter anything about her on your tax return". Therefore, I will file my tax return without the need to mention my daughter or her details since I am not claiming her.
(With that, the issue of me not claiming her as dependent does not arise since she isn't included on my tax return. Did I got that correct?)
2) In the tax return that she will be filing on her own, she will answer "yes, I can be claimed as a dependent" on her tax return.
Would that be alright? Thanks again for your kind replies.
1. If you don't want to claim her as a dependent, you don't have to. That's all there is to it. (You would never report her income on your tax return even if you did claim her as a dependent.)
2. Because she is under 19 as of December 31, 2020, she can be claimed by you, so she must answer "yes, someone else can claim me."
I don't know why you want to file this way. Your daughter gains nothing unless she is in college and her income was more than $12,400. You might be losing the ability to claim education credits, to file as head of household, and to claim earned income credit.
