Instructions For Form 1040ez - Income Tax Return For Single And Joint Filers With No Dependents - 2017 Page 15
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452017 Form 1040EZ—Lines 8a and 8b
6. Are you filing a joint return for 2017?
8. Can you be claimed as a dependent on someone else's 2017
tax return?
Yes. Skip questions 7
No. Go to question 7.
No. Go to Step 2.
Yes.
and 8; go to Step 2.
STOP
You cannot take the
credit.
7. Look at the qualifying child conditions next. Could you be
a qualifying child of another person in 2017? (Check “No”
Earned Income*
if the other person isn't required to file, and isn't filing, a
Step 2
2017 return or is filing a 2017 return only to claim a refund
of withheld income tax or estimated tax paid (see Pub. 596
*See
Election to use prior year earned
income, earlier, to see if
for examples).)
you can make an election to use your 2016 amounts to figure
Yes.
No. Go to question 8.
earned income in this step.
STOP
1. Complete the following worksheet to figure your earned
You cannot take the
income.
credit. Enter “No” in
the space to the left of
1. Enter the amount from Form 1040EZ,
line 8a.
line 1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. Enter any amount included on Form
A qualifying child for the EIC is someone who is another
1040EZ, line 1, that is a taxable
person’s...
scholarship or fellowship grant not
reported on Form W-2
. . . . . . . . . . .
Son, daughter, stepchild,
foster child
(defined later), brother, sister,
3. Enter any amount included on Form
stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, or a descendant of
1040EZ, line 1, that you received for work
any of them (for example, your grandchild, niece, or nephew).
performed while an inmate in a penal
institution. (Enter “PRI” and the same
AND
amount on the dotted line next to Form
1040EZ, line 1)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. Enter any amount included on Form
1040EZ, line 1, that you received as a
was...
pension or annuity from a nonqualified
Under age 19 at the end of 2017 and younger than the other person
deferred compensation plan or a
(or the other person’s spouse if they are filing jointly)
nongovernmental section 457 plan. (Enter
or
“DFC” and the same amount on the dotted
line next to Form 1040EZ, line 1). This
Under age 24 at the end of 2017, a
student
(defined later), and
amount may be shown in box 11 of Form
younger than the other person (or the other person’s spouse if they
W-2. If you received such an amount but
are filing jointly)
box 11 is blank, contact your employer for
or
the amount received
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Any age and
permanently and totally disabled
(defined later)
5. Add lines 2, 3, and 4
. . . . . . . . . . . .
6. Subtract line 5 from line 1
. . . . . . . . .
AND
7. Enter all your nontaxable combat pay if
you elect to include it in earned income.
Also enter this amount on Form 1040EZ,
Who isn't filing a joint return for 2017 or is filing a joint return for
line 8b. See
Combat pay,
nontaxable,
2017 only to claim a refund of withheld income tax or estimated
under Definitions and Special
tax paid (see Pub. 596 for examples)
Rules, later
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
AND
!
Electing to include nontaxable
CAUTION
combat pay may increase or decrease your
EIC. Figure the credit with and without
Who lived with the other person in the United States for more than
your nontaxable combat pay before
half of 2017.
making the election.
8. Add lines 6 and 7. This is your earned
If you didn't live with the other person for more than half
income.
of 2017 because of a temporary absence, birth, death, or
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
kidnapping, you may still be treated as if you had lived
!
with the other person for more than half of 2017; see
CAUTION
Exception to time you lived with the other
person, under
Definitions and Special Rules, later.
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Instructions for Form 1040EZ
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