Taxes for a teaching assistant & grad student

kiddie
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:19:55 +0000

You include her as dependent, she files her own return without including herself as dependent and gets her withheld taxes back (see the other thread on son’s tax form question)

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19215560#Comment_19215560

more details from a tax site:

If the student will be filing a tax return and:

The parents qualify to claim the student as a dependent, then:

The student must select the option for “I can be claimed on someone else’s return”, on the student’s tax return. The student must select this option even f the parent’s qualify to claim the student as a dependent, and the parents do not claim them.