If you were a student at a Church that offered theology classes can you file for the Earned Income Credit?

Question

Does anyone know, if you are a student and was a dependent on someone taxes can they file you as a student on their taxes if you took theology classes for 6mos at a Church. Can you check the box on your taxes for a student in school for the 2006 tax year, the person is 23 years old. The IRS want proof that I was a student and I was. What makes you considered to be a full time student, because now they say you have to be full time. I was a student for 6 months? Thanks

Answer 1

If you were a student for five months at a qualified institution of higher education, then you are considered a full-time student for IRS purposes. If you are under age 24, then you could be a qualifying child for purposes of the EIC.

An institution is qualified if it has a regular teaching staff, course of study, and a regularly enrolled body of students in attendance. Any educational institution that qualifies for federal financial aid would do, but it is not necessary.

Provide documentation that you attended a bona fide school, by your school records, school catalog, etc.

The fact that the school teaches theology is not an issue. If you took theology classes at a church, it would have to have a teaching staff and a curriculum. My guess is this is the issue for the IRS.

Answer 2

Earned earnings credit for families with toddlers is for low earnings salary earners. If a married couple isn't low earnings they don't qualify for an Earned earnings credit, whether each and each discern one after the other is low-earnings. The IRS assumes that oldsters residing with a toddler are each and each buying the youngster's help. The IRS has arbitrarily desperate that if a taxpayer's companion isn't residing with the taxpayer for the final six months of the 300 and sixty 5 days, the taxpayer could be considered single for purposes of the EIC. in any different case, the two mothers and fathers' earnings is was once certain eligibility for EIC.

Answer 3

If you are a dependent yourself, you CANNOT claim the EIC. And if you are under 24, single and have no qualifying dependents, you CANNOT claim the EIC even if you aren't the dependent of another taxpayer.