ThomasM125
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Investors & landlords

The IRS will not know you are renting the house to your dependent, so it should not be an audit trigger. However, you can't treat the fair market value of the room rent as part of the support you are providing, so it may affect your ability to be providing half the support of the individual for the support test.

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