There are people who received Advance Child Tax Credit Payments in 2021, but now are not claiming Dependents.
These people may need to repay the payments they received but are now not eligible for.
Without dependents listed on their return, the question about the credit and advance payments would not come up.
This year TurboTax has the Child Tax Credit (Schedule 8812) come up for ALL Taxpayers so that the IRS knows if they need to investigate for advance payments possibly received by Taxpayers filing a return which claims no dependents.
It may seem like a slight inconvenience, but it is a good way to eliminate any loophole that allows the payments to be "unreported".
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