@DoninGA wrote:
@550 Driver wrote:
Is it legal to have the student listed on my taxes and have her own 1040 for earned income at college ?
Sure. A dependent can file their own tax return. They just have to indicate on their tax return that they can be claimed as a dependent.
You cannot enter on your tax return a dependent's earned income reported on a W-2 or their earned income from self-employment.
When the dependent is filing their own tax return using TurboTax, in the My Info section for their personal information there is a selection that asks if they can be claimed as a dependent, they must indicate Yes.
