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Child deduction
When doing my 17 year old daughter's return, I am at the question 'Can another taxpayor claim you as a dependent on their tax return?'
I clicked on the dependent definition and it states: Age - the person must be age 18 or under at the end of 2022 or a full time student age 23 or under.
When I was doing my tax return, it did not let me claim my daughter as it states under federal deductions/credits child and other dependent tax credits, clicking on learn more: the tax credit is a tax break that can benefit people with children under the age of 17.
If I go by the dependent definition while doing my daughter's return, I should have been able to claim her but the child deduction/credit says 17 and under, not 18 and under.
So which one is right?
‎February 28, 2023
1:24 PM