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Claiming a full-time student qualifying child as a dependent for CTC and AOTC

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
October 11, 2023
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Prosseries is not allowing a parent to claim a full-time qualifying child age 20 as a dependent due to gross income limitation. Child had gross income of $5,000, but that limitation applies to "Other dependents, not qualifying children. Program error?

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Terry53029

Intuit Community Champion

On the federal info worksheet what code did you put for child in section 3, and what did you put for time lived with TP

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JJVAuthor

Level 4

Terry,

In response to your Q, In the Federal Info Worksheet Section 3, I have code "L" for dependent child who lived with client. And nothing in the box for (months) Lived with taxpayer in the US. So on Review it comes up with zero errors but I cannot mark it as "ready to Efile" and the message comes up about a dependent gross income limitation exceeding $4,400. I tried different permutations but with the same result.

If you know about Pilot error then please enlighten me.

Thank you for your prompt reply.

JV

Taxprohere

Level 7

Are you talking about the parent's return or the child's return? If parents, why are you putting in the child's income?

IRonMaN

Level 15

Sounds like a case of pilot error.

Slava Ukraini!

IRonMaN

Level 15

The income limitation note is a standard heads up item when you run the review feature. Why don’t you have anything in the months lived with taxpayer box? Time in college counts as living with parents.

Slava Ukraini!

PATAX

Level 12

@IRonMaN 👍 it is not a program error and Pro Series does not interface the parents return with the child's return. Something was not entered correctly on the parents worksheet. Have done many returns like this and have never had a problem including this year.

rbynaker

Level 13

How do you get CTC on a college student?

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JJVAuthor

Level 4

rby,

In response to you Q about how a qualifying child dependent full-time student age 21 gets the CTC, assuming parents meet the income limitation, they don't. They are eligible for the $500 "additional" CTC for other dependents. So complicated. (sidebar: Am I the only one who often wonders if we no longer have responsible stewards of our tax code and system?)

Thanks for asking. to you and all, I hope you have a good finish to your season!

JJV

BobKamman

Level 15

@JJV "we no longer have responsible stewards of our tax code and system"

As if we ever did. Or are you saying you miss Wilbur Mills? Well, OK, we have traded Fannie Fox for Stormy Daniels.

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