Can I efiled a signed Form 8332 as an attachment ?

[Opus 17]

No, the IRS and TurboTax do not support attachments. Instead, if you are claiming a dependent using form 8332, TurboTax will prompt you to print a cover page when you e-file. You will mail the cover page and the original signed form 8332 to the IRS within three days of e-filing. Keep a copy of form 8332 for your records.

[Stitch]

Never was directed to Form 8332 to sign. I am on ssi and i let my niece's aunt claim her on her taxes. She made more of course and she lived with her most night's weekends summer and holidays. Being over 183 night's as it says. She passed on sher taxes questioners. The aunt's taxes where approved, then needed to verify who she was, then nothing til she got the audit paperwork! Can form 8332 help giving her the right to claim her niece? And what happens if we don't have any proof that she lived there? Being my address was on all her stuff not the aunts. Need help to fiqure this out never been audited before ever. Thank you

[DMarkM1]

The form 8332 will not be helpful at this point.  Here are the tests that need to passed in order for the aunt to claim the child.  Here is the Publication that is applicable.  Once in the publication on the left side scroll down to "Qualifying Relative" and click on "Age" to get you to the right area.    

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Qualifying Relative

Four tests must be met for a person to be your qualifying relative. The four tests are:

1. The person can't be your qualifying child or the qualifying child of any other taxpayer.

2. The person either (a) must be related to you in one of the ways listed under Relatives who don't have to live with you , or (b) must live with you all year as a member of your household (and your relationship must not violate local law).

3. The person's gross income for the year must be less than $4,200.

4. You must provide more than half of the person's total support for the year.

[Opus 17]

Form 8332 only applies in the case of parents who are divorced or separated and sharing custody.  It would not be used when you are sharing custody with your sister even if you wanted to it would have no force.

in the case of an aunt versus a parent, the aunt can claim the child instead of the parent if a child lives in the aunts home more than half the year. That’s really the only thing that counts. You don’t have to prove who paid the child’s financial support, you just have to be able to prove that the child lived in the aunts home more than half the nights of the year instead of your home.

The IRS may be looking at this because, if you have no earned income, you would be eligible for very little in terms of child and dependent credits. In other cases like this, people have been known to file falsely, by claiming that the child lived with someone else who would qualify for credits instead of living with the person who does not qualify for credits.  The IRS may suspect you of the same thing.

You will have to do your best to find ways of showing that the child lived in the aunt’s home more than your home. You might have Facebook or Instagram posts that would show a background, you might have other friends or relatives who could write letters for you.  The best kind of proof would be letters from reliable outsiders, like the doctors office, the dentist office, or the school district, dealing with the child’s appointments and bus routes and grades and so on, that were sent to the aunt instead of to you. That would go along way toward proving where the child actually lived.

Unfortunately, because other people commit fraud, you may have a difficult time approving your case