How much was your tax refund this year and why was it that amount?

-i am curious because i want to know how to get a big one with claiming other kids that are my friends. some of them are out of work and need help financially. so they agreed i can claim them next year due to the fact that i help them when i can with money.



i could really use the money for savings to try to go for my masters next year. they have kids and get big refunds when they only worked fast food, so why cant i when they are not working? it is not fair to give people with kids and incomes under 45,000 or less all these tax credits to throw all in people's faces like that. what about working people like myself that deserve extra money to put toward school and other things that cost too much to pay without any help?i am not saying everyone, just the people who have no kids and need to pay for school or any expenses that they need a little boost on also?why only pity the people with kids?



any help would be so nice. thanks!If you want the "big one" get kids of your own. You'll quickly learn that the piddling amount of tax benefit does not come CLOSE to the cost of raising and providing for a child.



Claiming children that are not your children will get you busted by the IRS. This is a common fraud and the IRS is batting near 1,000 on nailing both the tax cheat (you) and the parents who colluded to commit fraud. Every once in a while the IRS will choose an unlucky poster child for tax fraud and I can promise you that you won't want to be the unlucky fool!



By the way, the EIC for someone making $45k is pocket change. Literally.You cannot claim someone else's children to "get a big one." That's fraud.



Both you *and* your friends will find out that a) the IRS figures it out and b) both of you will be barred from claiming EIC for 10 years.
If you're claiming a deduction for children not your own, you need to qualify as their primary source of support.