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Can I Claim Someone Else's Kids On My Tax Return? Can I Claim My Girlfriend's Kids on my Tax Return? - YouTube
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hello YouTube thank you for joining me
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today in today's short video I'll be
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talking about a very common question
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that i keep getting over and over and
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over again on my channel and that is can
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i claim my girlfriends kids on my tax
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return i've also heard the same question
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asked from the girlfriends perspective
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she asked can my boyfriend claim my kids
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on his tax return? that's what we're
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talking about today so stay tuned
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to be trying to figure out if you can
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claim your girlfriend's kids on your tax
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return now this is a really sticky type
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of question okay this is a hot audit
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button honestly so you really want to
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understand the rules and the fact that
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pertain to your particular situation so
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in many instances are in most cases you
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will not be able to claim your
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girlfriend children on your tax return
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however there may be a few exceptions to
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that if the your facts and circumstances
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lined up so that's what we're going to
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look at today the first thing I want to
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point out to you guys is we're really
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talking about qualifying I don't know if
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you guys can see this we're really
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talking about qualifying child rules
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versus qualifying relative ruled now
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qualifying child rules has its own set
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of rules I already made a video on that
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so I'm going to link it up right here
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there are down in the description below
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I mean so go check it out if you have
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not watched it already you kind of have
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to know the differences between the two
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set the rules now more importantly I'm
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going to be linking a link in the
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description down below that's going to
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take you to the IRS Publication 17 and
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that's going to answer a lot of the
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questions you have it also has many
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different examples including worksheets
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to calculate a support test what the
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qualifying relative rules are etc etc
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now I'm going to be making a video in
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the future that goes much more into
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detail and all this stuff however me
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being a tax accountant and it being a
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lot of today april ninth and the tax
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deadlines april eighteenth i am strapped
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on time guys I am I don't even know how
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i'm making this video I I probably
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should do in taxes like right now I'm
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not even joking anyway now let's let's
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talk about you
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all fine relative rules a little bit all
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right there's a lot more to consider
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when you're trying to claim somebody who
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is not related to you now if you were
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married this would not be an issue you'd
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be able to claim them no problem right
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but because you're not married that
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where you have some issues so there's
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some things you really need to consider
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because like I said this is a hot I Bush
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IRS really looked at this stuff closely
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because there's so much fraud around
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people claiming people they're not
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really supposed to be claiming and
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chipper has has had his own encounters
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with this okay the first thing I want
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you guys consider before trying to do
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too much research on this is ok you want
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to claim your girlfriends kids my
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question for you is can your girlfriend
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already claimed her kids as a qualifying
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child on her tax return now notice I
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said can she I didn't say will she but I
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said can she because if she can you're
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at a lot you cannot claim her children
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if she can claim them as her qualifying
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children there's like I said there's
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only a few few very rare exceptions
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where that would not be the case and
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that's where you would be able to blame
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them so that's number one the second
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thing for you guys consider is since
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these are not your kids is their child
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support agreement in place or their
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child custody agreements in place in the
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decree a lot of times if there is a
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child custody agreement or support
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agreement it will spell out who gets to
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claim that child on our tax return so
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these kids of your girlfriends their dad
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might be able to claim them depending on
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the circus the facts and circumstances
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of your situation so you have to
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consider that the third thing I really
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want you guys to consider do have these
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kids lived with you for the whole year
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now under the qualifying child rules
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they only have to live with you if
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they're a qualifying child but only have
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to live with you for more than half a
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year well since these kids are not
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technically related to you at least not
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yet because you're not married they
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would have to have live in your
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household the whole year so if you if
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they have not lived in your house the
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whole year
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you're not going to be able to claim
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them number four a lot of people have
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asked also asked me besides the whole
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you know can I claim these kids type of
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thing is you know can't can I look up
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online to see if their social security
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numbers then claims and the answer is
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unfortunately knew if I could if people
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could do that people will be claiming
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people left and right so the IRS does
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not allow you to see that however one
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thing you can do if you're on if you if
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you do believe you can claim your grill
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French children based on the qualifying
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relative rules and by looking at all the
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rules then if you file are each other if
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you prepare your return electronically
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in tax software if if it will allow you
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to do the check efile do the check efile
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function and a lot of times the return
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will not eat file if somebody else has
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already claimed that child under their
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social security number so if you can do
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the check a file on your return it will
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often tell you whether or not that
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person has been claimed you might even
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just ask if if you're thinking about
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claiming them make sure nobody else is
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otherwise you are going to get a letter
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from the lovely IRS and 0 is not
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wonderful all right another thing to
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consider is you do not want to claim
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head of household for these children if
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you're going to try to claim them you do
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not want to claim the filing status
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because since these kids are not related
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to you they're not technically your kids
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you would not be able to claim the head
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of household filing status so you want
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to claim a single status or another type
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of status the reason I bring that up is
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because one of my viewers recently tried
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to claim that status on his girlfriend
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kids and now he's getting letters in the
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mail from the IRS and that I told them
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they're probably going to disallow it so
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be prepared alright guys i'm gonna start
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wrapping up this video right here I know
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it's short I know I couldn't give you a
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yes or no answer on this particular
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question which is what you really need
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to do is go look an IRS website and
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start applying your facts to those rules
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and see if it lines up and see if it
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makes sense this whether or not you can
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claim them based on your
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your life circumstances in situation
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that's what you need to do if you learn
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