After you file
Based on the information you provided regarding your son, he would qualify as a Qualifying Relative which allows you to claim the $500 Non-Refundable Other Dependent Credit.
If you are not seeing any change in your refund, this is likely because you have no tax liability on line 24 of your 1040 already. Since the Other Dependent Credit is a nonrefundable credits, this will only lower your tax liability to $0. It will not result in additional refunds of money you did not pay in.
You can look at the first page of your 1040 where it says Dependent to see if there is a check mark in the box for Credit for Other Deps. If it does, that means you did everything right.
On the menu bar on the left that shows.
- Select Tax Tools
- On the drop-down select Tools
- On the pop-up menu
- Select View Tax Summary
- On the left sidebar, select Preview my 1040
If you are using Desktop version, you can just switch to forms mode to see your 1040.
