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For those of you who filled out form 8859 to claim your adoption tax credit. If you have not yet finalized or even matched, what did you enter under "child name"?
Thanks!
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When we filed for the credit during our first adoption wait, we put "See Attached" and then on a separate sheet we listed our agency address and phone number. We had paid expenses in 2002 that we claimed on our Tax Year 2003 taxes.
You cannot e-file, though, without either an ATIN or SSN number for a child to put in that space, you have to mail in your taxes.
And yes, we got the credit included in our taxes that year. In fact, I forgot to do it this year with our second adoption because we paid expenses in 2008 and had two failed matches in 2009, so I need to file amended 2009 taxes.
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When we filed for the credit during our first adoption wait, we put "See Attached" and then on a separate sheet we listed our agency address and phone number. We had paid expenses in 2002 that we claimed on our Tax Year 2003 taxes.
You cannot e-file, though, without either an ATIN or SSN number for a child to put in that space, you have to mail in your taxes.
And yes, we got the credit included in our taxes that year. In fact, I forgot to do it this year with our second adoption because we paid expenses in 2008 and had two failed matches in 2009, so I need to file amended 2009 taxes.
Thanks so much for the reply.