Yes, you can be claimed as a dependent by your parents if you file separately, and otherwise meet all the dependency requirements. Your parents will not find out that you are married - however, if you are required to file a tax return, you must still indicate that you can be claimed by someone else.
This is just silly. if youre old enough and mature enough to get married, just tell them already.
I tried bringing it up to them and they're very conservative. im about graduate and have a job lined up already. Im sure they'll find out soon.
Yes, you can be claimed as a dependent by your parents if you file separately, and otherwise meet all the dependency requirements. Your parents will not find out that you are married - however, if you are required to file a tax return, you must still indicate that you can be claimed by someone else.
Thank you so much! My husband can't claim me as a dependent right? Just my parents?
Correct. Your husband will also have to file Married Separately.
And he will not be able to claim any education credits -- just in case he is also a student.
( Community property states: AZ, CA, ID, LA, NV, NM, TX, WA, WI)
yes I do.i live in Texas. I am a college student and he is in the army
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Come back in early 2018, and we'll help you with this.
Be careful - a lot depends on the circumstances and details that we do not know.
In a community property state half your spouses income is your income and versa-visa, so when filing separately you might be required to file declaring that income. That is one of the reasons that filing separately in a community property state is usually the worse way to file.
In your case, that could come back to haunt you since if in the IRS's opinion your spouses income (and your community part of that income) and your address on the tax return would seem to conflict with your parents claim to claim you as a dependent that lived with them for more than half the tax year and you did not support yourself.
That could result in a letter to your parents asking then to proof that; 1) you lived with them more than half the tax year and were *only* away from home to attend school; 2) you did not pay more than half of your own support.
I am not saying that you cannot get away with hiding your marriage from you parents, only that the IRS can send letters to your parents questioning their ability to claim you based on conflicting tax returns that they received. (The IRS would not say that you were married, or reveal any information form your tax return, they would only require that your parents prove what they claimed on their tax return.)
Oh - I might add - the IRS usually runs computer matching of tax returns to find such mismatches about a year after the filing date so letters resulting from a mismatch on a 2017 tax return (filed in April 2018) would probably not be sent until sometime late in 2019.
"Im sure they'll find out soon." Are you getting married in 2017, or 2018?
Another consideration is health insurance coverage under the ACA. If your parents claim you, they are required to provide coverage for you, or pay a penalty. But you will be covered by the military once you are married.
I will be getting married in 2017, and I have my own insurance. I have always done my own taxes but my parents claim me as a dependent still.
Okok so im assuming you've done this so i need help! When theyre filing taxes can they see. I'm also on every form of their insurance and I'm pretty sure you have to inform insurance companies as well... I'll have to file my own taxes probably but is there any way they could find out before I would be ready to tell them
@Riley014 Is this you---using a different username now? It seems an unlikely coincidence that we would have two recent posts from different users on this particular topic.
This thread is very old. When the user forum changed from Answer Xchange to Real Money Talk in June 2019, a lot of very old posts migrated over with 2019 dates on them, including this one. You are unlikely to hear any sort of reply from someone who posted here years ago, but maybe they will respond to let you know if they are still happily married, or if trying to keep their marriage a secret led to lots of trouble.
If you can be claimed as a dependent on your parents' tax return, and you say you can be claimed as someone else's dependent on your own married filing separately tax return, then unless your parents actually SEE your tax return, that will not be the way they find out you got married. But they are still likely to find out before you are "ready" for them to know. Be careful....you may cause more trouble for yourself and your GF by trying to keep marriage a secret.
I have clear memories of my freshman year of college when my roommate tried this----it only took a few weeks until her parents discovered the "secret" marriage and oh, what a mess it became.