业余水平的会计师还是不行啊。。。

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一直以为上大学的孩子有一定收入后,可以完全脱离父母报税(父母不把孩子当dependent)。这种情况下,如果因为父母收入高(16万-18万之间为phase-out区间),不能拿education credit, 孩子可以自己拿。昨晚朋友用软件试,发现不行,才搞清不行的原因:孩子独立报税拿refundable 的1000有很多条件,上大学孩子基本不可能。我读过8863的说明,也就只看自家的情况合适不合适,走那条途径,没仔细研究其它不同情况。。。下面是8863的说明

If you were under age 24 at the end of 2018 and the conditions
listed below apply to you, you cannot claim any part of the
American opportunity credit as a refundable credit on your tax
return. Instead, you can claim your allowed credit, figured in Part
II, only as a nonrefundable credit to reduce your tax.
You don't qualify for a refundable American opportunity
credit if 1 (a, b, or c), 2, and 3 below apply to you.
1. You were:
a. Under age 18 at the end of 2018, or
b. Age 18 at the end of 2018 and your earned income
(defined later) was less than one-half of your support
(defined later), or
c. Over age 18 and under age 24 at the end of 2018 and a
full-time student (defined later) and your earned income
(defined later) was less than one-half of your support
(defined later).
2. At least one of your parents was alive at the end of 2018.
3. You're not filing a joint return for 2018.


业余水平的会计师还是不行啊。。。不过,今年由于500块的人头credit (credit for other dependents),这个credit的收入限制(married-file-jointly,40万)和education的收入限制不一样,他们把孩子作为dependent的建议被采纳,孩子有收入再另外报税。

 

昨晚再研究了一下8863的说明,对拿高奖学金助学金的家庭,下面这部分也许有用。8863说明对scholarship/fellowship数字在父母填税表时怎么分配,很有意思的。我举例:

假设学校学费50,000;Board/room 13,000。

1。scholarship 40,000,父母交了23,000。用来交学费的scholarship不算收入,因为拿到的scholarship少于学费,孩子没有收入需要交税。父母交的钱有一万算交学费,父母可以claim education Credit(只需要4,000就足够拿到所有的education credit了)。

2。Scholarship 52,000,父母交了11,000。这个很有意思--最合算的办法是孩子报6,000的收入,就是52,000的scholarship分成两部分,46,000交了学费,不算收入;6,000算交了board/room,算收入。父母交了11,000,7,000是board/room,4,000算是学费,这样就可以拿到所有的education credit。。。当然,你可以选择报2,000,父母交的钱全部算Board/room, 不拿education credit。。。记住,孩子作父母的dependent, 收入到12,000都没有联邦税。孩子6,000的收入没有联邦,但要交州税哦。。。

3。Scholarship 63,000。。。父母没交一分钱,自然没有可能拿education credit了。。。


(声明:业余水平的会计师,错了不负责)

 

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