@ligiaa15 wrote:
It’s different if you meet the criteria of a dependent. But like I said before I’m 26, have my own career, make my own money and my parents haven’t claimed me since 2016. There’s a lot of different info out there. But if any of you going through the same thing get the check please follow up on this thread 🙂 thanks!
I would tend to agree if the checks were going to be issued a year from now.
The IRS does NOT check if you can or cannot be a dependent or if another taxpayer actually claimed you for at least a year after the due date of the tax return. That is because many taxpayer wait for the extended due date (Oct 15) to file. The IRS also waits for taxpayers to correct mistakes with amended returns, so the matching of returns for dependents is almost always done about a year after filling. Many taxpayers are just getting such audit letters for the 2018 tax returns now. So the IRS can catch this but you might have to wait a year or so for them to do it.
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