Solved

My daughter is a minor and had a job, she was claimed as a dependent on Married filing jointly return. Do i file her taxes separately?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
June 4, 2019
2 replies
0 views

No text available

TurboTax Free Edition Online

Best answer by Hal_Al

You do not report his/her income on your return. If it has to be reported at all, it goes on his own return. If your dependent child is under age 19 (or under 24 if a full time student), he or she must file a tax return for 2016 if he had any of the following:

1. Total income (wages, salaries, taxable scholarship etc.) of more than $6,300 (2016).

2. Unearned income (interest, dividends, capital gains) of more than $1050 (2016).

3. Unearned income over $350 and gross income of more than $1050

4. Household employee income (e.g. baby sitting, lawn mowing) over $2000 ($6300 if under age 18)

5. Other self employment income over $400, including box 7 of a 1099-MISC

Even if he had less, he is allowed to file if he needs to get back income tax withholding. He cannot get back social security or Medicare tax withholding.

He doesn’t get his own $4050 exemption (deduction), when he files. In TurboTax, he indicates that somebody else can claim him as a dependent, at the personal information section.

Hal_AlAnswer

Employee

You do not report his/her income on your return. If it has to be reported at all, it goes on his own return. If your dependent child is under age 19 (or under 24 if a full time student), he or she must file a tax return for 2016 if he had any of the following:

1. Total income (wages, salaries, taxable scholarship etc.) of more than $6,300 (2016).

2. Unearned income (interest, dividends, capital gains) of more than $1050 (2016).

3. Unearned income over $350 and gross income of more than $1050

4. Household employee income (e.g. baby sitting, lawn mowing) over $2000 ($6300 if under age 18)

5. Other self employment income over $400, including box 7 of a 1099-MISC

Even if he had less, he is allowed to file if he needs to get back income tax withholding. He cannot get back social security or Medicare tax withholding.

He doesn’t get his own $4050 exemption (deduction), when he files. In TurboTax, he indicates that somebody else can claim him as a dependent, at the personal information section.

Employee

If your dependent has a W-2 for his after-school job, summer job, etc. you do not include the information on your own return. You can still claim your child as a dependent on your own return. He/she can file his own return for a refund of some of his withheld wages (he won’t get back anything for Social Security or Medicare), but MUST indicate on it that he can be claimed as a dependent on someone else’s return. (Supervise this closely or prepare it for him!)

If your dependent’s earnings were over $400 and were reported on a 1099Misc then he must file a return and pay self-employment tax for Social Security and Medicare. You may want to use this version of TT for that:

https://turbotax.intuit.com/taxfreedom/

**Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to offer the most correct information possible. The poster disclaims any legal responsibility for the accuracy of the information that is contained in this post.**