Samuel is a qualifying child 2 his grandmother who's AGI is 5000 his stepfather who's AGI is 25,000 and his aunt who's AGI is 55000 who is entitled to claim Samuel
As per the tiebreaker rule for deciding the person who should claim the qualified child deduction,
The first preference is given to the child's parents.
If none of the persons claiming the deduction is child's parent, then the person who has the highest AGI shall be allowed to claim the deduction.
According to the data of the given problem, none of the persons claiming is samuel's parents, hence the person who has the highest AGI among the three shall be allowed to claim the deduction.
Which happens to be samuel's aunt who has AGI of $55,000
Therefore, samuel's aunt shall be allowed to claim samuel.
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