Vanessa A
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State tax filing

No.  You cannot deduct expenses for someone that is not a US Citizen living in Peru on your tax return. 

 

In order to claim expenses for someone like that you would have to claim them as a dependent on your return.  in order to claim them on your return as a dependent, they would have to be a US Citizen, US Resident, US National or Resident of Canada or Mexico. 

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