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"Your dependent care expenses" or "Your expenses for care providers" screen for daycare
I have expenses for daycare. The wizard shows me two screens: "Your dependent care expenses" and "Your expenses for care providers."
If I put the daycare expenses under "Your dependent care expenses," my tax refund increases. This seems appropriate because daycare is listed as a valid expense on the help for this page.
But we pay a provider. So I removed the expense and added it to "Your expenses for care providers" instead. But this didn't increase our tax refund. I find these 2 pages confusing. Am I supposed to enter the expense on only one of these 2 pages? If so, which one? Or should I enter it on both?
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‎February 8, 2026
3:04 PM