How much do I need to make in order to qualify for child tax credit and earned income tax credit?

Question

I would like to put my childon my income tax rather than my ex boyfriend's income tax for now on. Me and my child would soon be looking for a new place to live without him.

Answer 1

I'm not sure you'll be able to claim the child this year if you lived with your ex last year and he paid the majority of the bills. Next years calculations will be different than this years. EIC you can only get if you are single (which you are) and make less than approx. 35,000 a year (W-2 gross). Your child tax credit I don't believe has a limit of amount, I got for last year, however, I was unemployed for 1/2 the year but I think I got it the year before also. It's either $600 or $1000.

Answer 2

I don't know how little you have to make to qualify for earned income credit. Check the IRS website. I do know that my husband and I get the child tax credit though at a lower rate. The more you make the less the credit.

Answer 3

$a million. notwithstanding, that merely receives you, say, 50 cents. in case you do not have qualifying toddlers (and do not stay with ones that some different person is claiming), your earnings ought to should be lower than $13K and your age ought to should be between 25 and sixty 5. The max is on the order of $four hundred. once you've qualifying toddlers (eg, your bio-little ones), the quantity is going up dramatically for both nevertheless qualifying and what you ought to get decrease back. i detect that folk who attempt to recreation the device--merely artwork adequate to get EIC--are dropping my money as a taxpayer and putting themselves up for failure.

Answer 4

http://www.taxcreditresources.org/pages.cfm?contentID=34&pageID=12&subpages=yes&dynamicID=544#graph

This link has a graph that shows how much you can make as well as the percentage of EIC you'll get based on how much you make. The receive the highest EIC with one child your income would have to be in the $10K-15K range, with a lesser percentage up to about $28K.

Answer 5

Depending on the size of your household, it's $27,000/year (roughly). Keep in mind that this tax season you will still be including him. But only because you were living together. But since you aren't married, it shouldn't make much difference

Answer 6

I don't think there is an amount you have to make, but you do have to make something.

Answer 7

i think you couldn't make any more than 34,080 if single