How can you get a parent to not claim her 23 yr old child in taxes? She's a full-time student and worker?

My friend is a 23 year old full-time student/worker that has a money hungry mother. Her mother will do anything to get money back for taxes. She lives with her mother and her mother doesn't do anything for her financially. When she went to file her taxes this year (Jan 2008) she had to pay back a lot of taxes because her mother claimed her. What can she possibly do so her mother will not claim her?How can you get a parent to not claim her 23 yr old child in taxes? She's a full-time student and worker?
Your friend is probably unaware how much support her mother *does* provide. Her share of housing, utilities and food is probably MUCH more than she realizes.





Her mother is also probably unaware of how much the total support was for her daughter.





Both of them need to know the answer BEFORE they file. My dad and I would sit down and do the math each year --in September--because he was determined to claim my exemption. My job, partial scholarship and loans made it iffy. (I would be told exactly how much I had to put into savings!)





Tell your friend to get IRS pub 501 and do the support test worksheet on page 20. Either she supported herself or she didn't. IF she did support herself, she DOES get to claim herself.





As for last year's taxes, it's not an issue of who filed first, it's who did their taxes right. If she's eligible and can't efile because the Number was already used, then she needed to file by MAIL. The IRS will resolve the duplciate issue.How can you get a parent to not claim her 23 yr old child in taxes? She's a full-time student and worker?
Well, if she still lives at home, then mother deserves that exemption. Now if your friend pays rent to the mother, does her own wash, cleans the areas she uses, buys her own food and prepares it herself, then she should claim herself. If the furnace goes out does your friend offer to arrange for a repairman to look at it and after the repairs pay the bill? Don't think so! A 23 year old should be able to figure this out using common sense.
She could move out and pay more than half of her own expenses. While she is living with her parent, and is a full-time student under age 24, the IRS is going to assume she is a dependent.





If your friend can document that she paid for over half of her own support, she can claim herself. Otherwise, her mother claims her.
the law says that only the person who CAN claim the dependent MAY claim the dependent.





so if your mom legally can claim you oops i mean your friend, then there is nothing your friend can do.
Did she pay all her own support? If she did then she just files her own taxes. The IRS will see 2 returns with the same ss number and will investigate.
if your friend files her own taxes its illegal for her mother to claim her


on her taxes

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