claimed dependent illegally

[rlj0817]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Virginia
I have a good reason to believe that my daughters fathers girlfriend claimed my daughter on her 2014 taxes. I am disabled and receive social security disability, I'm not married and can't file my taxes. I sent the IRS a 3949-A notice but I don't know what ever happened with that. Is there any way to find out?

 

[commentator]

Whether or not they investigated the matter, the one thing they will never do is call the person who reported it and say, "Yeah, you know, you were right about that. We found out that sucker was reporting this when he shouldn't have!" That is the thing about turning someone in on a fraud hotline or telling on them in some way. It may have come down all over his head, but you as the interested third party don't get to know the particulars unless he tells you.

 

[davew128]

With whom does the daughter live? One need not be related to a person to claim them as a dependent based on the circumstances.

 

[rlj0817]

She's about to be seventeen and has lived with me her entire life. I have full custody and have never received child support from her father. The man that has been taking care of her(and my son) for the last ten years can't claim them on his taxes because we aren't married. We found out the hard way when he tried to one year and he was audited, the IRS made him pay back all the money he received for them. We later were told by a tax specialist that more than likely, someone probably turned him in. This all just happened to occur right at the time when my kids decided that they didn't want to see him until he got help for himself. Long story short, I am not sure how she got her social security number but this woman is no relation to my kids, never provided for them or did anything for them, neither did their father. If it's not legal for someone that actually provided and cared for them for a decade, it shouldn't be legal for this stranger to my kids to do it.

 

[davew128]

The man that has been taking care of her(and my son) for the last ten years can't claim them on his taxes because we aren't married.

Marital status and familial relationship isn't required to claim dependency. Do you and your children live with that man?

 

[quincy]

The links to two other current threads by rlj0817 follow.

https://forum.freeadvice.com/landlord-tenant-issues-42/eviction-question-620671.html

https://forum.freeadvice.com/online-purchases-sales-87/refund-question-620669.html

Who are you, rlj0817, and in what state do you reside?

 

[commentator]

All the sour grapes and arguments in the world aren't going to force the IRS to tell you what your daughter's father's girlfriend did on her taxes in 2014 and what they did about it. What do you think, if you find out she did claim the girl, you're going to like sue her for it?

 

[Just Blue]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Virginia
I have a good reason to believe that my daughters fathers girlfriend claimed my daughter on her 2014 taxes. I am disabled and receive social security disability, I'm not married and can't file my taxes. I sent the IRS a 3949-A notice but I don't know what ever happened with that. Is there any way to find out?

Do your own homework. Or troll elsewhere. Whateveahhh

 

[quincy]

... your daughter's father's girlfriend ...

Ahh. But what if rlj0817 is the grandson, living with his grandmother in Pennsylvania and being threatened with eviction because his grandmother does not like his girlfriend all that much? Does THAT change the answer at all?

 

[commentator]

I read, and I still don't think they're going to tell "spiteful grandma" anything about girlfriend's tax issues, who she claimed, etc. I guess if they are howling and complaining about being audited,and grandma hears it, she'll get the satisfaction of knowing she managed to do something that caused the IRS to do something, but the IRS won't tell her.

 

[Ohiogal]

Ahh. But what if rlj0817 is the grandson, living with his grandmother in Pennsylvania and being threatened with eviction because his grandmother does not like his girlfriend all that much? Does THAT change the answer at all?

Technically she could be a lesbian whose grandmother doesn't like HER girlfriend.

 

[quincy]

Technically she could be a lesbian whose grandmother doesn't like HER girlfriend.

True.

Rlj-the-lesbian has a grandmother (also Rlj) who wants Rlj-the-lesbian evicted from Rlj-the-grandmother's apartment in Pennsylvania because Rlj-the-grandmother does not like Rlj-the-lesbian's girlfriend (although eviction could be difficult because both Rlj-the-grandmother and Rlj-the-lesbian are both on the apartment lease) - this even though Rlj-the-grandmother and Rlj-the-lesbian and Rlj's 17 year old daughter and Rlj's son and the man who has been taking care of them all apparently live in Virginia.

And woe upon woe to Rlj - the wrong hotspot device was delivered to Rlj's house/apartment in Virginia even though Rlj is also living in a Pennsylvania apartment.

I might need a Venn diagram to be sure but something seems a bit off.