Phil Marti wrote:
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than the $1200 already received including the $300 for the child.

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"khelek" wrote:

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Suspect # 1: You didn't tell Tax Cut that the child lived with you for 12
months. This is the appropriate entry for a child who was born or died
during the year. (Congratulations, BTW.) A way of checking this is to see
whether you're getting the Child Tax Credit on line 52. Fixing the one
entry will cure both problems.

Suspect # 2: You had a 2008 spike of income sufficient to make you
ineligible for the credit. Right-click on line 70 to open the worksheet for
that line and check the calculations and the entry near the bottom for the
amount of stimulus payment you received.

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Clarksburg, MD

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Hello all,

I'm glad I found this group for general tax questions and hope I'm not
asking something that's already been discussed (I've done some
searching on the web and haven't found an answer yet). If it's been
discussed already, please excuse me (and feel free to point me to the
previous discussion)

As in previous years, I'm using the online version of TaxCut for my
taxes. My wife and I are filing married/joint, as in years past. Last
year we received $1200 from the "stimulus" that was passed as an
advance for 2008. My understanding is, and confirmed by the IRS, that
if we had a child in 2008, we would get the additional $300 that we
didn't get last year (again, because it was an advance for 2008
taxes). We had a child at the beginning of July 2008.

I have included our new bundle of tax deduction in our taxes and he
has a social security number, which is also entered. During the dialog
for TaxCut, it asks about the 2007 "stimulus" and how much we
received. I told it that we received the full amount we were due at
the time ($1200). However, it never mentioned anything about the fact
that we had a child born in 2008, and said that we are not due any
more money. Doing my research on the web, it looks like if TaxCut had
done something automatic, there would be something on line 70,
"Recovery Rebate Credit", but that line is left blank. My question is,
are there any other TaxCut users (or H&R folks) reading who can give
me guidance in what I need to do to get the additional money. Thank
you for any help you can give!

Brian Johnson

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