WillK
Intuit Alumni

Deductions & credits

Most likely when you were filling out her information on the dependent section, she was born in October, so you probably indicated that she lived with you 2-3 months of the year. What you need to do is to change it to that she lived with you for the whole year. A child born in any part of the tax year is considered to have lived with the parent for the entire year. 

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