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Deductions & credits

Please give us the following:

 

1. The amount in box 10 of your W-2.

2. The number of dependents you listed for care.

3. Are either of you taking the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion?

4. Are you filing married separate?

5. What are the ages of the qualifying person(s) that you paid care for?

6. Were some of the 2022 expenses paid in 2021 or before?

7. Did you have an FSA with your employer?

8. Did your employer provide child care? If so, what was the value of this care for your child?

9. Are you are to provide the name, address, and tax ID of each organization providing care?

10. Did you forfeit any of your FSA money or carry it over to next year?

 

There are even more questions but what you might do is run the IRS Interactive Assistant online to enter your data and see if you qualify for the credit. If some of the questions don't make sense, come back and we'll tell you about it.

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