Question

which of the following individuals meets the dependency tests as a qualifying child of the taxpayer?

laura 19 left home three years ago and moved in with her sister 21, the taxpayer. laura is a full time student who paid less than 50% of her own support

the taxpayer's father, ron 62 , was sick, did not have any income, and lived with the taxpayer all year. the taxpayer paid all of rons support for the year.

rons wife 60 works and earned $20000. they are filing married filing MFJ.

chance 17 is the taxpayers stepson. he lived with the taxpayer for 5 months and moved out with his mom when the taxpayer and chances mom

got a divorce. the taxpayer contributed over50% of the support of the household

Answer 1

Which of the following individuals meets the dependency tests as a qualifying child of the taxpayer?

The IRS (Internal Revenue Service, USA) says: A person must be of less than  19 years of age or be a "student" younger than 24 years old as of the end of the calendar year, to qualify.

Laura, who is 19 years of age & she's a full time student, qualifities as a child of the taxpayer &

Chance, who is 17 years of age also qualifies as a child of the taxpayer.