Filing an amended return to claim dependents? Tax rebate?

Question

When we filed our taxes this year (2007) our return was rejected by the IRS because the SS# for my husbands children had already been claimed on another return.

We claim his kids every year (as stated in the court papers) because the Mom doesn't work and has no income....She claimed the kids on her return this year, because her husband had an income.

Anyway, We filed our return without his kids, so that our return would be on time. A week later (April 21st) we filed an amended return adding his kids as our dependents.

Anyone know if his kids will be added to our tax rebate? Will this change the date that we get our rebate? I can't find an answer on the IRS website and calling them leaves me on hold for a really long time.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You "blew" it.  When the electronic filing was rejected, you should have printed the tax return--with the dependents on it--signed it and mailed it in.  The IRS would have processed the tax return in about 6 weeks and would have allowed the duplicate SSNs to go through.  (And would have resolved the duplicates later.)

You'll have to wait until you file in 2008 to expect any rebate money for your children.  (If they turn 17 in the meantime, too bad.)

The rebate for you and your husband will be based on the 2007 return, but it will be delayed until the amended return is completed--sometime in July or August.

PS, if your income is such that without 2 children you would pay $1200 or more in income tax, but with the children you would have paid less than $600, you'll actually come out the same.

Answer 2

it is based on your original return not the amended