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You should be able to claim him as your dependent under the Qualifying Child rules as long as he meets all the requirements.
To be a Qualifying Child -
1. The child must be your son, daughter, stepchild, foster child, 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 unless disabled.
MY DEPENDENT HAD A JOB
If your dependent has a W-2 for his after-school job, summer job, etc. you do not include the information on your own return. You can still claim your child as a dependent on your own return. He/she can file his own return for a refund of some of his withheld wages (he won’t get back anything for Social Security or Medicare), but MUST indicate on it that he can be claimed as a dependent on someone else’s return. (Supervise this closely or prepare it for him!)
If your dependent’s earnings were over $400 and were reported on a 1099Misc or 1099NEC then he must file a return and pay self-employment tax for Social Security and Medicare.
You might also want to use free software from the IRS Free File versions:
https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/
AT age 18, your child can still be a "qualifying child" dependent. If he attends college as a full-time student, he may be a qualifying child until the year he turns 24.
WHO CAN I CLAIM AS A DEPENDENT?
You can claim a child, relative, friend, or fiancé (etc.) as a dependent on your 2024 taxes as long as they meet the following requirements:
Qualifying child
It depends. If he was a full-time student for 5 months out of the year, then yes, you would be able to still claim him as a dependent regardless of how much he earned as long as he did not provide over half of his own support.
If he was NOT a full-time student for 5 months out of the year, then you could possibly claim him as a Qualifying Relative if he earned less than $5,050.
If he was NOT a full -time student and he earned MORE than $5,050, then you would NOT be able to claim him at all as a dependent on your return.
The following criteria must be met to claim someone as a qualifying child:
To claim someone as a Qualifying Relative, they must be:
Yes he was in high school and graduated in June of 2024. So I’m able to claim him as a dependent? I supported him all year and still do.
@Candyandbrayden wrote:
Yes he was in high school and graduated in June of 2024. So I’m able to claim him as a dependent? I supported him all year and still do.
Yes, you can claim him as your dependent.
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