PaulaM
Employee Tax Expert

Retirement tax questions

The rules for claiming yourself, or if you can be claimed as a dependent are clear, but you have to decide who is eligible to claim your exemption first.  If you meet the qualifications, then you can take your own exemption and your trust distributions would count as your own support.

See page 27 of IRS pub 17 for the conditions that would mean someone else can claim you.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p17.pdf

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