<menawach[at]msn.com> wrote:

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Reconstruct.

Submit affidavits from neighbors, pharmacies, ministers.

Affidavit from adult child can't hurt.

Did adult child change address on driver's license? Get a
speeding ticket?

Did adult child file change of address with post office and
would post office be willing to put that in writing? The
more paper the better.

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Art Kamlet ArtKamlet [at] AOL.com Columbus OH K2PZH

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menawach[at]msn.com wrote:

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sure there is. And we need to continually point out to our
clients that the time to cinch any deduction, to document
any fact, is now.

If my son moved back with me, I would insist he get a new
driver's license in this state to document the approximate
starting date of residence. (This might or not work for a
son previously living in the same state though.) What else?
Insist he go and register to vote using my home address.
AND of course make copies of said card for my records. What
else? Have him furnish me envelopes of mail he recieves at
my address so I can make copies.

How's that?

ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

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I have a client, single & divorced, whose grown children and
grandchildren moved in with him the last seven months of
2004. He was their sole support. As a result of claiming
these dependent, filing HOH & claiming EIC, the IRS'
computer selected his 2004 return for audit. The adult
children do not work nor go to school; the grandchildren are
too young to attend school. The grandchildren sought
medical help during this period and listed the client's
address as their place of residence. He has neighbors who
will attest to the fact that these dependents lived with the
client. How do you prove that someone has lived with you
if, in a sense, their is no paper trail.

I thought about this problem. If my son moved back in with
us for a year, there is no way I could prove that he lived
with us or that we were his sole support.

Ric Smith, EA
Dunlap TN

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