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Can I claim a premature loss with a birth and death certificate?

My daughter was born in august of 2016. She lived for 1 hour and 42 minutes. Do I claim her ?
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Can I claim a premature loss with a birth and death certificate?

So sorry for your loss, yes you can claim your child, a child born during the year and that passes away during the year is deemed to have lived in your home for the entire year.  Select the child lived with you all year when you enter their information on your tax return.

Also, see the following from the IRS:

Born and died in 2016.   If your child was born and died in 2016, and you don’t have an SSN for the child, you may attach a copy of the child's birth certificate, death certificate, or hospital records instead. The document must show the child was born alive. If you do this, enter “DIED” in column (2) of line 6c of your Form 1040 or Form 1040A.

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Can I claim a premature loss with a birth and death certificate?

Does she have an SSN?

Can I claim a premature loss with a birth and death certificate?

Sadly yes you can due to a live birth ... but a SS# should have been issued and is needed for the return.

Can I claim a premature loss with a birth and death certificate?

So sorry for your loss, yes you can claim your child, a child born during the year and that passes away during the year is deemed to have lived in your home for the entire year.  Select the child lived with you all year when you enter their information on your tax return.

Also, see the following from the IRS:

Born and died in 2016.   If your child was born and died in 2016, and you don’t have an SSN for the child, you may attach a copy of the child's birth certificate, death certificate, or hospital records instead. The document must show the child was born alive. If you do this, enter “DIED” in column (2) of line 6c of your Form 1040 or Form 1040A.

Can I claim a premature loss with a birth and death certificate?

Does this "copy of the child's birth certificate" need to be an official state issued copy or can it be an electronic scan of an official state issued copy?  Simply, do I need to order additional copies from the Vital Statistics office for this filing?

Can I claim a premature loss with a birth and death certificate?

It states attach a copy, so an electronic scan would be a copy and should be fine.
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