ChristinaS
Expert Alumni

Deductions & credits

Line 7 is greater by $5000????And, line 49 is where the credit would be. You don't have one now .
I'm not really sure there's a problem here...perhaps you are, in part, confusing the child tax credit. A 20% credit on $5000 would be $1000, and the CTC is also $1000, so lets be sure those aren't confused.