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mnfriedman1
March 23, 2022
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1040 Page ` Child Tax Credit box

  • March 23, 2022
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My two children lived abroad with us for the entire 2021 so are not elegible for the Child Tax Credit. The Page 1 boxes are checked off and I do not see how to change that.

Any help would be appreciatred.

Thanks.

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JillS56
March 23, 2022

Are you receiving credit for Child Tax credit on your return?  Look at line 28 of Form 1040.   If this line is blank that you are not getting credit and I would not be concerned that these boxes are checked because TurboTax has not calculated the credit.  

 

If you are getting the credit, you should go back to the Deductions and Credit section and scroll to You and Your Family, and then click on  Visit All and make sure you have answered all the questions correctly.    Make sure you have answered "NO" to the question "Did you have a principal place of residence in the US for more than half of 2021?"

 

 

 

 

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mnfriedman1Author
March 23, 2022

Turbotax is not computing a credit amount but my concern is that with the boxes checked, the IRS might.

 

Thanks.

AmyC
AmyC
Employee
March 23, 2022

The IRS will not add child tax credit to your refund. You have to ask for the child tax credit in order to receive it.

@JillS56 is correct that when you marked NO to living in the US that should have handled the checkmark. 

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