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Which parent should claim advance child tax credit, married filing jointly with two kids

nov_284 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:35:04 GMT

Re: Which parent should claim advance child tax credit, married filing jointly with two kids

DoninGA — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:41:46 GMT

Filing jointly it does not matter which parent received the advance child tax credit. You report the payments received when asked by the program.

Re: Which parent should claim advance child tax credit, married filing jointly with two kids

Mike9241 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:44:40 GMT

if you're filing jointly it won't matter.

Re: Which parent should claim advance child tax credit, married filing jointly with two kids

nov_284 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:47:21 GMT

If I put it in as each of us receiving the credit, the program doubles it. We received $500 total, but when I put it into the program it asks if $1000 is correct.

Super annoying; I tried to opt out of the payments totally specifically to avoid this problem. I mean, I didn’t see *this* problem coming, but I knew it was going to be something.

Re: Which parent should claim advance child tax credit, married filing jointly with two kids

fanfare — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:41:22 GMT

There is no problem.

On a joint return, your family gets the credit per child.

You enter the numbers only once.

Re: Which parent should claim advance child tax credit, married filing jointly with two kids

fanfare — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:43:04 GMT

if somehow you both applied for and both received the credit per child,

you'll have to pay back half of it.