Do I technically have qualifying children for Letter 6419 if I never received the document or signed up for advanced child tax credit payments?

[RaifH]

It depends. If you were eligible for the credit based on your 2020 return, you should have been sent payments automatically, unless you opted out. If you have qualifying children for the Child Tax Credit that you are claiming on your 2021 tax return but did not claim in 2020, you can still get the full credit, including the advanced payments that you did not get. 

Whether you have children or not, you still have to report any advanced payments that would have been reported to you on Letter 6419. To confirm you did not receive any advance payments:

1. In the Federal section of your return, go to Deductions & Credits
2. Scroll down to You and Your Family and click Revisit/Start next to Advance payments, Child and Other Dependent Tax Credits
3. Click Continue
4. Answer Let's start with where you spent the most time in 2021.
5. Answer No to Did you receive any advance Child Tax Credit payments in 2021?

If you are not sure if you received advanced payments and have not yet received Letter 6419, you may also view your payments at the IRS website.

[lindexter21]

I have never received a letter 6419 , not in 2020 or 2021 , and I dont hve children to claim, turbo tax is nailing me to the cross for this , is there a way to explain to turbo tax  ??

[JulieS]

If you don't have children to claim in 2020 or 2021, this issue doesn't affect your tax return at all. You would not get the letter, or the credit and you would not be forced to pay anything back.

If you are unhappy with your results, it is due to something else. If I am not understanding your situation, please clarify your question with a little more detail. 

[xmasbaby0]

@lindexter21 Are you confused by having to answer the questions about the child tax credit?   You just have to say you did not claim any children and did not receive any advance child tax credit payments.

Everyone has to answer whether they received advance child tax credit payments.   If you did not receive any of those payments between July and December you need to answer that you did not receive any payments.

There are so many scenarios with those payments---like divorced/never married parents who have issues over who received the payments, who claimed the children, Grandma claimed them last year,  one parent claimed two last year and is claiming one this year, etc. etc. etc. --- the software has no way of knowing if any of that involves you---so you have to answer the questions about it.