Sounds about right.
To claim your college student as a dependent for the year 2017, they must meet certain criteria such as being under a certain age, living with you for more than half the year, and not providing more than half of their own financial support. Check the IRS guidelines to see if you qualify to claim them as a dependent.
To access and fill out the student info worksheet in TurboTax, log in to your account and navigate to the section for education expenses. Look for the student info worksheet and follow the prompts to fill in the required information about your education expenses and any related tax credits.
Whenever you start university (or, in America, college), is the correct age to get a student credit card.
A parent is never obligated to pay for college. However, if a student is a dependent student, then the federal government will award less financial aid to that student because it assumes that the child's guardians will contribute towards educational expenses.
"Your sister Theresa, a college student, had a difficult time finding a job." You want to separate the phrase 'a college student' as an identifier. If you remove the phrase the sentence still makes sense.
Yes, a college student who is claimed as a dependent on their parents' tax return can still receive a refund if they have earned income and file their own tax return. If their income is below the taxable threshold or if they qualify for tax credits like the Earned Income Tax Credit, they may receive a refund even though they are a dependent. However, the dependent status affects their eligibility for certain tax credits.
Yes, generally under certain conditions, (ie, full time college student, disabled, etc).
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If they live in your house, legally yes you can claim them. You can also claim a student in college as a dependent up to 21 years of age. So even if your student is paying their entire way, legally they can still be someone's dependent. When the child files their tax returns, they have to put that someone claims them as a dependent, or the IRS may look at why the guardian is also claiming them as a dependent.
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There are other factors, such as how much you earned, whether someone can claim you as a dependent and how much money was withheld.
If the student is over 18, they are an adult; therefore, if they received medical treatment, they are legally responsible for the bill. The fact that they are a dependant doesn't matter.