Dependent

[Christian]

On adding a child as a dependent who was born 2/1/16 ATX does not indicate he qualifies for the child tax credit. I added Form 8867 and it still will not give his parents the credit. I reread the qualifiers and find no reason he does not qualify. My thought was he was not yet one year old in 2016 but don't see that as disqualifying. A software glitch?

[Lion EA]

I don't use ATX, but it's probably a box you need to check that he lived with his parents all year (all the year he was alive) or was born or died during 2016 or put 12 as months lived with parents or something along that line.  Make sure you have his birth date in 2016 (I sometimes default to now, 2017, and get weird error messages).

Save and exit and open and try again.

[rfassett]

I always mark the box "lived in home for 12 months" in these situations and it solves the problem.  Another issue may be one of phase out.  Is that an issue?

[Lee B]

Phase out for MFJ begins at $110 k

[Jack from Ohio]

Mark that the child was in the home for 12 months.  Then check the box for "eligible for child tax credit" and "eligible for EiC.

I use ATX and that works fine.

[Pacun]

Jack is right.

When the program doesn't calculate a credit correctly, I go to the W-2 and maybe instead of 90K, I make it 20K. I lower income to about 35K, that way if the credit is not showing because of phase out, I will see the credit when the income is 35K. This is also helpful when calculating EIC.  If I get the credit when the income is 35K, then I know I did everything right.

When there is no tax liability, the Child Tax Credit will not show and ATX will not give you the Additional Child tax credit automatically, in that case you have to invoke the form by clicking on the "bunny".