IsabellaG
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Deductions & credits

If you paid  for your daughter to attend the daycare center, then it was not provided by your employer, so you should answer no.

But check box 10 of your W-2 to see if any child care benefits were provided through a  flexible spending arrangement with your employer. If those payments were made through such an arrangement, you didn't pay income tax on them, and you would have to reduce your amount paid by the pre-tax amounts.

See page 10 of this link:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p503.pdf

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