How is the unearned income of children treated for tax purposes? Can parents include the children’s earned (salaries and wages) income on their own return
How is the unearned income of children treated for tax purposes? Can parents include the children’s earned (salaries and wages) income on their own return
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How is the unearned income of children treated for tax purposes? Can parents include the children’s earned (salaries and wages) income on their own return
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Step 1: Unearned income of children
Unearned income includes investment-type income such as taxable interest, ordinary dividends, and capital gain distributions. It also includes unemployment compensation, taxable social security benefits, pensions, annuities, cancellation of debt, and distributions of unearned income from a trust
All unearned income that kids receive above the threshold amount is taxed at their parent's highest income tax rate, if higher than the child's rate. That rate can be as high as 37%, compared to the 10% rate that most children would be paying
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