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Who Can I Claim as a Dependent?

Information You Will Need:

  • Citizenship status, marital status, relationship to the dependent and the amount of support provided
  • Basic income information such as your adjusted gross income
  • If no person supplied more than half of the potential dependent's support, the terms of any multiple support agreement you may have

Estimated Completion Time: 15 minutes. However: 5 minutes of inactivity will end the interview and you will be forced to start over.

The following interview covers the same questions you would answer if you called our toll-free tax assistance telephone number or if you came into a Taxpayer Assistance Center.

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Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 2013-03-26