Dependents fall into two categories, a qualifying child or a qualifying relative. In order to claim an adult dependent, they must pass these seven tests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dependent Taxpayer Test
Joint Return Test
Citizen or Resident Test
Qualifying Child Test
Member of Household or Relationship
Gross Income Test
Support Test<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To find out if you can cut your tax bill by claiming an adult dependent, visit the AARP article, 6 Tax Breaks If You Have an Adult Dependent<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dependents fall into two categories, a qualifying child or a qualifying relative. In order to claim an adult dependent, they must pass these seven tests: Dependent Taxpayer TestJoint Return TestCitizen or Resident TestQualifying Child TestMember of Household or RelationshipGross Income TestSupport Test To find out if you can cut your tax bill by claiming an … Continue reading Understanding Adult Dependents<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1748,1747,1750,1746,1749,1751,1752,201,1613],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-adult-dependent","tag-child-dependent","tag-citizen","tag-dependent","tag-gross-income","tag-joint-return","tag-resident","tag-taxes","tag-taxpayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}