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Your parents may be able to claim you as a qualifying child dependent, which is one of two types of dependents, on their 2016 tax return. Your marriage in 2017 has no affect on your 2016 tax return. If you meet the tests to be claimed by your parents, you can't claim yourself. Here are the tests from their perspective:
1. The child must be your son, daughter, stepchild, foster chld, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister, or a descendant of any of them.
2. The child must be (a) under age 19 at the end of the year, (b) under age 24 at the end of the year and a full-time student, or (c) any age and permanently and totally disabled.
3. The child must have lived with you for more than half of the year. Temporary absences while away at college are considered living with you.
4. The child must not have provided more than half of his or her own support for the year.
5. If the child meets the rules to be a qualifying child of more than one person, you must be the person entitled to claim the child as a qualifying child.
6. The child must be a U.S. citizen or U.S., Canada or Mexico resident for some portion of the year.
7. The child must be younger than you (or your spouse, if filing jointly) unless disabled.
Your parents may be able to claim you as a qualifying child dependent, which is one of two types of dependents, on their 2016 tax return. Your marriage in 2017 has no affect on your 2016 tax return. If you meet the tests to be claimed by your parents, you can't claim yourself. Here are the tests from their perspective:
1. The child must be your son, daughter, stepchild, foster chld, brother, sister, half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister, or a descendant of any of them.
2. The child must be (a) under age 19 at the end of the year, (b) under age 24 at the end of the year and a full-time student, or (c) any age and permanently and totally disabled.
3. The child must have lived with you for more than half of the year. Temporary absences while away at college are considered living with you.
4. The child must not have provided more than half of his or her own support for the year.
5. If the child meets the rules to be a qualifying child of more than one person, you must be the person entitled to claim the child as a qualifying child.
6. The child must be a U.S. citizen or U.S., Canada or Mexico resident for some portion of the year.
7. The child must be younger than you (or your spouse, if filing jointly) unless disabled.
and will be filing joint taxes with my partner.
Just to fully clarify, you can't do that in 2016 if you are not married on December 31, 2016.
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