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@dosmom1234    You should read 8615 instructions.  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i8615--2018.pdf">https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i8615--2018.pdf...>
 Support for 8615: Support. Your support includes all amounts spent to provide
you with food, lodging, clothing, education, medical and dental
care, recreation, transportation, and similar necessities. To
figure your support, count support provided by you, your
parents, and others. However, a SCHOLARSHIP you received isn’t
considered support if you’re a full-time student. For details, see
Pub. 501, Dependents, Standard Deduction, and Filing
Information.

Form 8615 must be filed for anyone who meets all of the
following conditions.
1. You had more than $2,100 of unearned income.Unearned Income Worksheet—Line 1
Keep for Your Records (Basically Unearned income includes taxable
interest, ordinary dividends, capital gains (including capital gain
distributions), rents, royalties, etc. It also includes taxable social
security benefits, pension and annuity income, taxable
scholarship and fellowship grants not reported on Form W-2,
unemployment compensation, alimony, and income (other than
earned income) received as the beneficiary of a trust.)
. a the amount from your Form 1040, line 6, or Form
1040NR, line 23, whichever applies ............
b. Enter your earned income (defined earlier) plus the
amount of any penalty on early withdrawal of savings
from your Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 30, or Form
1040NR, line 30, whichever applies ............
c. Subtract line 2 from line 1. Enter the result here and on
Form 8615, line 1 ........................
2. You are required to file a tax return.
3. You were either:
a. Under age 18 at the end of 2018,
b. Age 18 at the end of 2018 and didn’t have EARNED INCOME
that was more than half of your support, OR
c. A full-time student AT LEAST age 19 and under age 24 at the
end of 2018 and didn’t have EARNED INCOME that was more than
half of your support.
(Support defined below.  Earned income includes wages, tips, and
other payments received for personal services performed.
If you’re a sole proprietor or a partner in a trade or business in
which both personal services and capital are material
income-producing factors, earned income also includes a
reasonable allowance for compensation for personal services,
but not more than 30% of your share of the net profits from that
trade or business (after subtracting the deduction for one-half of
self-employment tax). However, the 30% limit doesn’t apply if
there are no net profits from the trade or business.
If capital isn’t an income-producing factor and your personal
services produced the business income, all of your gross income
from the trade or business is considered earned income. In that
case, earned income is generally the total of the amounts
reported on Form 1040, line 1; Schedule 1 (Form 1040), lines 12
and 18; or Form 1040NR, lines 8, 13, and 19.
Earned income also includes any taxable distribution from a
qualified disability trust. A qualified disability trust is any
nongrantor trust:
1. Described in 42 U.S.C. 1396p(c)(2)(B)(iv) and
established solely for the benefit of an individual under 65 years
of age who is disabled, and
2. All the beneficiaries of which are determined by the
Commissioner of Social Security to have been disabled for some
part of the tax year within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)(3).
A trust won’t fail to meet (2) above just because the trust's
corpus may revert to a person who isn’t disabled after the trust
ceases to have any disabled beneficiaries.
 )
4. At least one of your parents was alive at the end of 2018.
5. You don’t file a joint return for 2018.
These rules apply if you’re legally adopted and a stepchild.
These rules also apply whether or not you’re a dependent.
These rules don't apply if neither of your parents were living at
the end of the year.

Support. Your support includes all amounts spent to provide
you with food, lodging, clothing, education, medical and dental
care, recreation, transportation, and similar necessities. To
figure your support, count support provided by you, your
parents, and others. However, a scholarship you received isn’t
considered support if you’re a full-time student. For details, see
Pub. 501, Dependents, Standard Deduction, and Filing
Information.
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