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my son 20 lived with me last year up until october but since he has left he has made income that he needs to files his own taxes,can i still put him on my taxes?

 
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DoninGA
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my son 20 lived with me last year up until october but since he has left he has made income that he needs to files his own taxes,can i still put him on my taxes?

Since he was not a full time student for 5 months and earned over $5,050, no one can claim him as a dependent.

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my son 20 lived with me last year up until october but since he has left he has made income that he needs to files his own taxes,can i still put him on my taxes?

You have not mentioned if he was a full-time student in 2024.   If he was not a student and earned more than $5050, you cannot claim him as a dependent.

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my son 20 lived with me last year up until october but since he has left he has made income that he needs to files his own taxes,can i still put him on my taxes?

He was a full time student for about 3 months last year and yes he made more than $5k last year

DoninGA
Level 15
Intuit Approved! This answer has been verified for accuracy by an Intuit expert employee

my son 20 lived with me last year up until october but since he has left he has made income that he needs to files his own taxes,can i still put him on my taxes?

Since he was not a full time student for 5 months and earned over $5,050, no one can claim him as a dependent.

Hal_Al
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my son 20 lived with me last year up until october but since he has left he has made income that he needs to files his own taxes,can i still put him on my taxes?

It depends on the exact meaning of "a full time student for about 3 months".  For dependent purposes, the student rule is "a student for any part of 5 calendar months. The 5 months do not have to be consecutive. The common example: a kid who was a student from January 30 to May 1 ("about" 3 months) meets the 5 month rule. 

 

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.

A child of a taxpayer can still be a “Qualifying Child” (QC) dependent, regardless of his/her 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. Scholarships are excluded from the support calculation
  3. He lived with the parent (including temporary absences such as away at school) for more than half the year

If your kid does not qualify under the QC rules, then he must have less than $5050 of income to qualify under the Qualifying Relative rules. 

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

my son 20 lived with me last year up until october but since he has left he has made income that he needs to files his own taxes,can i still put him on my taxes?

Thank you for the information 

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