Ok im so lost and really hope this can be sorted out rather easily. So i filed my taxes just like i do every year fill out the info answer the questions and hit continue on. It asked me if i had a child in the last year which i have so i said yes. Then it said great let's see if we can add them as a dependent. It proceeded to ask me the questions have you adopted or had a child? Has the child lived with you for more then 12 months? Finally Do you have an agreement with the other parent that they are going to be claiming the child on their taxes? Yes yes and yes. Then it says with the info given you do not qualify to claim this child as a dependent. In the fine print it states that you might be able to qualify for savings however and has the option of continuing or going back to the previous question. When i hit continue it asked for my child's ssn then had the option of continuing or going back to the you don't qualify screen. So i entered my child's ssn hit continue and that was it moved on to the next section. After everything was finalized it said that i was receiving a non dependent eic. So i thought nothing of it i figured i didn't qualify to claim my child because i had an agreement with the child's other parent that they were going to be the claiming them and that i had made that clear and everything was fine. so i hit the send button. Now my gf who claimed her at work on her taxes for the whole year finally got all her w2s in goes to file and claim our as planned gets her taxes rejected because our childs ssn is on my tax return. So with all that being said i have a few questions. What is a non dependent eic? Why after i said that i wasn't claiming our child and that i had an agreement with the other parent that they were going to claim them did it then ask for my childs ssn if it was going to interfere with the other parent to where they wouldn't be able to claim said child? What can i do to fix this issue? Finally who is at fault? In my opinion i believe TurboTax is at fault because if a parent states that they have an agreement and that they are not trying to claim a child on their taxes then the option too put a ssn if its going to make it so the parent that is supposed to claim the child cannot do so then that option shouldn't even be offered at all
