A woman's father lived with her and her husband all of 2004 until his death in Nov. 2004 (so I know that makes him a dependent). here is my problem, his sources of income were 1900 (salary - taxable), 3200 SS benefits (non-taxable), and 3500 unemploy benefits (taxable). First question, would this be gross income of 5400 (3500+1900) since the SS benefits are excluded? Here is my problem, he deposited $5000 of into a savings account and never used it (it does not specify what sources he took the $5000 from) so, do i assme that the $5000 came from the $5400 since that is his true GI? Also, it says the "remainder" of his support of $7500 was provoded to him by his daughter and son-in-law, $5100 of that was from funeral expenses, are funeral expenses considered support under the dependency test?
Bottom line, can this father be considered a dependent, or does he not meet the 04 criteria (50% support from child) and is his GI > $3100? Please help, thank you very muc
2006-06-18
06:55:57
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