If i filed my siblings on my taxes as a civilian and becammilitary and didnt file them because i thought i had to be a parent can i file separately from my military taxes

[Critter-3]

You are confused ... you file ONE tax return with all your income on it from all sources.  There is no such thing as a "military" taxes.   If you need to make changes to an already filed return then you can amend it ... 

See this TurboTax support FAQ for amending a tax return - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/amend-change-correct-return-a...

[Hal_Al]

@jshicks23  said: "i thought i had to be a parent" 

No, but your dependents do have to live with you and the parent's status does come into play.  See full rules below. 

There are two types of dependents, "Qualifying Children"(QC) and Other ("Qualifying Relative" in IRS parlance even though they don't have to actually be related). There is no income limit for a QC but there is an age limit, student status, a relationship test and residence test. Only a QC qualifies a taxpayer for the Earned Income Credit and the Child Tax Credit. They are interrelated but the rules are different for each.

The support test is different for each type. The support test, for a QC, is only that the child didn't provide more than half his own support. The support test for a Qualifying Relative is that the taxpayer provided more than half the relative's support.

.A child closely related (a sibling counts) to a taxpayer can be a “Qualifying Child (QC)” dependent, regardless of the child's income, if:

1. He is under age 19, or under 24 if a full time student for at least 5 months of the year, or  is totally & permanently disabled
2. He did not provide more than 1/2 his own support
3. He lived with the relative (including temporary absences) for more than half the year
4. He is younger than the relative (not applicable for a disabled child)
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 (this essentially means that you have the parent’s permission to claim the child, if the child also lived with the parent more than half the year)
6. If the parents of a child can claim the child as a qualifying child but no parent so claims the child, no one else can claim the child as a qualifying child unless that person's adjusted gross income (AGI) is higher than the highest AGI of any of the child's parents who can claim the child.

See full dependent rules at: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Family/Rules-for-Claiming-a-Dependent-on-Your-Tax-Ret...

[jshicks23]

I understand i just worded the issue wrong. I claimed them on my taxes last year because i was helping with them. But when i joined i didnt know about taxes and was told if i wanted to file kids which we were told if we didnt have kids not to worry about it. I didnt ask questions because once again was uneducated about taxes and thought it was different standards. So the question is if i didnt put them as dependent on my w-2 from the military can i still claim them because i was helping with them financially. And if not do i add them to my w-2 this year so that i can claim them next year

[Hal_Al]

Q. So the question is if I didn't put them as dependent on my W-4* from the military can I still claim them?

A. Yes.  What you claim on your W-4 is only an estimate for the purpose of tax withholding.  It does not lock you in to what you can claim, when you actually file taxes..

But, you must meet the full rules (see above). One critical  rule, for a "Qualifying Child" dependent, being that you must live with them for more than half the year.  "Helping with them financially" is not enough. 

A person can still be a Qualifying relative dependent, if not a Qualifying Child, if he meets the 6 tests for claiming a dependent:

1. Closely Related OR live with the taxpayer ALL year
2. His/her gross taxable income for the year must be less than $4700 (2023) ($4400 for 2022).
3. The taxpayer (you) must have provided more than 1/2 his support

In either case:

4. He must be a US citizen or resident of the US, Canada or Mexico
5. He must not file a joint return with his spouse or be claiming a dependent of his own
6. He must not be the qualifying child of another taxpayer, e.g. his parents.

*A W-4 is filled out by the employee when the employee accepts a new job or at any time after that when the employee wants to change filing status or withholding allowances. A W-2 is filled out by the employer at the end of each tax year for the employee and is a statement of income and withholdings for that tax year.

Reference: https://smartasset.com/taxes/w-2-vs-w-4