CPA Accountant Review Questions

Category - Tax Preparation

For purposes of the Earned Income Credit, a qualifying child is a child who...
  1. is over age 24 at the end of 2010 and not permanently and totally disabled
  2. has lived with you in the United States for at least 12 months
  3. is filing a joint return
  4. meets the relationship test
Explanation
Answer: D - Meets the relationship test.

The relationship test is one of several tests, but the most prominent, used by the IRS to determine if a person can be claimed as dependent on someone else's tax return.  The relationship test mandates that the person in question must be a lineal descendant or ancestor, sibling, in-law, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle, or anyone other than the taxpayer's spouse who lived in the taxpayer's household during the entire year. 

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