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Your parents lost the Child Tax Credit in the year that you turned 17. They can still claim you as a dependent. You must say on your return that you can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's return. (In other words, you cannot "claim yourself.") If you claim yourself when your parents are claiming you, as they have a right to do, when they try to e-file their return, it will be rejected by the IRS. Then they will have to file by mail. They will be mad. And you will end up having to amend your own tax return.
Your parents lost the Child Tax Credit in the year that you turned 17. They can still claim you as a dependent. You must say on your return that you can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's return. (In other words, you cannot "claim yourself.") If you claim yourself when your parents are claiming you, as they have a right to do, when they try to e-file their return, it will be rejected by the IRS. Then they will have to file by mail. They will be mad. And you will end up having to amend your own tax return.
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