I have custody of my son, but I let his Dad claim him on his taxes, but he did not he let somebody else claim our son on their taxes what can I do?
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Contact the IRS and let them know what happened. I don’t know what state you live in, but I’m pretty sure that’s illegal.
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Talk to a tax professional
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Claim him yourself if you haven’t and it’s will handle it
Call the IRS and report it .than call ss and tell them that your son’s number has been been used by an unknown person and needs to terminate and a new one issue …and never let your ex have it again
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Absolutely nothing since u forfeited that year to claim, period.
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Report it to the irs. That’s tax fraud.
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That’s fraud call the IRS
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In custody procedures they split taxes one year one parent one year the other. If it was the fathers year to claim the child they did nothing wrong. You may not like it but it was the fathers year to claim child. That being said, the other parent just doesn’t get to decide who claims the child. The courts do. The laws do.
I’m guessing you’re more upset that the person who claimed the child you don’t care for? If not what is the big issue? You gave up the year to claim the child.
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It’s actually considered tax evasion and is a felony. File your taxes, claim your child when they get kicked back out the IRS will open an investigation (you will have to submit lots of paperwork) and once it’s evident that someone else committed their crime, you get your tax amount and they have to pay lots of fines and fees and can have charges filed against them.
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What the hell? Report that crap to the IRS.
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Notify the IRS because if you don’t when you try to claim him next year you can run in to issues.
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Report it. It’s fraud someone can’t claim a dependent that isn’t theirs
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That’s tax fraud. Turn him in. Why let anyone else claim your dependent?
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It’s fraudulent, report it and claim him your self
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That’s fraud! The only ones that can claim a child is a parent or legal guardian! Call the IRS
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I’m seeing how quick most of y’all would run and snitch 
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Why does it matter if it wasn’t your year?
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Ask him why? Maybe someone is helping him financially?
Maybe he did it because he’s behind on something and afraid all of his tax money will get taken… is it right? No… buttttttt
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If it was me I would report it to the IRS and let them deal with it
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Notifying the IRS would be a start
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Also adding why the mom cares when she gave up the year. How does she know?
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If you have your child more than 6 months of the year you are suposed to claim him.
How? He would’ve needed your signature on paperwork to do that if your the custodial parent. ( that’s how it is in Massachusetts anyways.)
Report it and don’t let dad claim him ever again.
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Instead of asking facebook ask irs ASAP lol
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That’s tax fraud… call the irs
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So is it because someone else claimed the kid (that u were ok w at first) or is it because they possibly got the stimulus money for him too?
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It’s against the law if it’s not a parent or legal guardian! BUT if you were not going to get any money why do you care? The only bad thing is if it was a female claiming the child as if he was hers then when you file you may be flagged and have to prove the child is yours! Anyways they will get caught if not now they will later and have to repay the money, I know people that’s done that and 2 years later they got caught and had to repay the IRS plus they garnished his wages till it was paid in full!
You need to call it in and report it and the child get claims with the parent they live with other wise it is fraud
Only a biological or legal guardian can claim the dependent on taxes, it’s tax fraud!
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Nothing- you let him have that year
The only way anyone can legally claim a child is if the child lives with them 6 months or more out of the year. I’m not sure why you would even agree to let your ex claim him when you have custody. But anyone else doing it is fraud and you need to take legal action.
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Its tax frauds. My tax guy is by the book. I have to bring in proof that each child is living in my home with my address listed on school or doctor’s records.
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Report to IRS, most likely that persons taxes will be flagged anyways.
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Dude a lot of you people are dumb AF
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You might actually dig yourself a hole trying to do something about it since you already gave someone who doesn’t have custody permission to claim him.
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File yourself and the irs will audit both
Simple. It’s fraud and illegal. She was being nice and allowing BD to claim child and he didn’t; he let someone else claim child instead. I.L.L.E.G.A.L.
How is that no big deal?? Wow!
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They (whoever claimed him) also got your 500$ stimulus money
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The statements made about custody are not 100% accurate, there are rules and exceptions to claiming someone as a dependent. That being said, I would not be ok with the non parent claiming my child as a dependent. As mentioned above, it could raise questions down the line when you or the child’s dad try to claim them once again.
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Consider this a lesson learned
I would report it to the irs as fraud because that is exactly what that is.
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As the custodial parent you have to sign a waiver each year allowing the father to claim him. If u did that, you can’t do anything. If you didn’t do that you can contact the IRS and they will help you sort it out. Random people can’t just claim your kid.
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Call the IRS. This is tax fraud.
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Report it to the irs since it wasn’t the father or legal guardian that claimed him.
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Report him and them to the IRS
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No one can claim your child but you or him if he doesn’t pay child support and if he has another spouse no one can claim the child at his residence
Report to its as fraud
So that’s fraud. Report it to the IRS, they are prob going to get audited anyway. They are going to think it’s weird that someone new is claiming your son.
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Lol at the people saying she cant do nothing about it since she let the father claim him. She gave CONSENT to the FATHER not to anyone else. Call irs or where you get your taxes done. They will audit it
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If you had custody of child, Why let the Dad get the child tax credit I do not get it and what he did is Fraud. The only one can claim are either you or him. Sorry that happened to you but hopefully this is a lesson to not do it again. Contact IRS or your tax preparer.
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Well here things are a bit different I guess. Since I already claim my 3 biological children on my taxes, my husband does not (he is their biological father), so when his daughter came to us I now claim her as well. We called them and were told by them that only one parent in a household can claim all kids in the household. So instead of shifting it all to him we chose to just add the one child to mine. She is not my biological child, and her mother has absolutely no say in who claims her when she is in her fathers care.
Report to irs and get a id pin for him
This happened to me. My ex claimed my kid’s,I had to show proof that they lived with me the whole year. He had to pay the state back plus interest.
Is this someone else a live in girlfriend maybe?? Then it’s legal. She probably made more income and could have filed head of household
Report it. Because u didnt give the other person permission.
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Yeah not allowed dummy
I highly doubt it even happened bc it’s illegal
And if so who cares if you weren’t claiming the kid
You can’t claim a kid that isn’t yours I went to school for it 
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Call and report to irs
Report it to the irs tax fraud department
All these ppl saying only parents can claim the child are wrong. An adult the child lives with 183 or more days a year can claim them. The tax refund is supposed to go towards the care of the child.
She can report this to IRS. But they don’t investigate every claim. The best way to stop the person from claiming your child is to file fast & claim them. If your child is claimed twice that will flag both refunds. I only know because my ex did this. Since I’m disabled I don’t file taxes. I filed the fraud papers every year. Nothing happened until my son started working. He claimed them. He got a letter saying his dependents were claimed twice. Had to send in proof that he lived with them & helped support them. He got his refund. Far as I know nothing happened to my ex. He doesn’t claim them now.
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Depends on your custody order. Does it have language on who gets to claim the child on taxes ?
Also, when you say someone else, does your ex live with the person who claimed your child on their taxes as a dependent?
Whoever has the child and can prove so can claim them. If you can prove you had him file with him on your return. The IRS will audit the other and make them correct theirs.
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Call the district attorney.
File an amendment on your taxes
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Read this… especially number 1.
https://www.irishtaxrebates.ie/5-surprising-sources-of-tax-relief-for-parents/
Totally fraud! Have your ex or you notify the IRS!
Report him to the IRS!
This is not legal. Report it.
Maybe you’ll be smarter next year!