From vedwards@u.washington.edu Thu Aug 1 16:29:09 1996 Received: from carson-oms1.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.06/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA32680; Thu, 1 Aug 96 16:29:09 -0700 Received: from carson.u.washington.edu by carson-oms1.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.06/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA13354; Thu, 1 Aug 96 16:29:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:29:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Virjean Edwards To: residency@u.washington.edu Subject: forwarded message from Tesler Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- I have a student who is 43 years old claiming he is dependent on his parents, which of course, they have fully documented residency in the state. HOWEVER, the IRS states that anyone above 24 has to meet all of the 5 qualifying criteria regardless of whether they are a student, and based on what I stated on this student the IRS informed me he should not have been claimed.........when we called the tax accounting office who prepared their tax forms to question it, the accountant stated that their client's son "had no income and resided in parent's home" yet the admissions form shows he was actually attending schools in Arizona during 1995 and part of 1996 (obviously not residing in parent's home for over six months), the student was receiving financial aid (perhaps parents didn't provide more than one--half of his support), and that he completed a GED in Arizona back in 1986 (so he's probably lived there since). I don't think he's dependent and this seems really unfair to me. should I ignore it all and approve his residency based on what the states and the supporting documentation on his parents???? Our inquiry to IRS was not necessary but he just seemed too old to be dependent (and my sister-in-law is an auditor for IRS so it's easy for me to get to an IRS expert opinion), I could call him in and lay it all on the line.....what do you think?? thanks for any responses. Tika Esler, Bellevue CC .