According to a recent IRS publication:Yes. Community property laws must be taken into account in determining the adjusted gross income (or modified adjusted gross income) amounts in section 21(a) (dependent care credit), section 24(b) (child tax credit), section 32(a) (earned income credit), and section 36A(b) (making work pay credit).
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According to a recent IRS publication:Registered domestic partners who reported community income without regard to community property laws for a taxable year beginning before 2010 are generally not required to amend those returns to report half of the community income. The following rules apply for taxable years prior to 2010:
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In all cases, if one of the partners amends his or her return to report half of the community income, the other partner must report the other half.
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According to a recent IRS publication:The adopting parent may claim an adoption credit to the extent provided under § 36C. Section 36C(d)(1)(C) does not allow taxpayers to claim an adoption credit for expenses incurred in adopting the child of the taxpayer’s spouse. However, the limitation in section 36C(d)(1)(C) does not apply to adoptions by registered domestic partners because registered domestic partners are not spouses as defined by federal law.
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According to a recent IRS publication:Each registered domestic partner may qualify to claim the adoption credit on the amount of the qualified adoption expenses paid or incurred for the adoption. The partners may not both claim credit for the same qualified adoption expenses, and neither partner may claim more than the amount of expenses that he or she paid or incurred. The adoption credit is limited to $13,170 per child in 2010. Thus, if two registered domestic partners each paid qualified adoption expenses to adopt the same child, and the total of those expenses exceeds $13,170, the maximum credit available for the adoption is $13,170. The partners may allocate this maximum between them in any way they agree, but the amount allocated to a partner may not be more than the amount of expenses he or she paid or incurred. The same rules generally apply in the case of a special needs adoption. The total credit for such an adoption is limited to $13,170, but the amount that each partner may claim is not limited by the amount of expenses paid or incurred.
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According to a recent IRS publication:No. The federal tax laws governing these credits specifically provide that earned income is computed without regard to community property laws in determining the earned income amounts described in section 21(d) (dependent care credit), section 24(d) (the refundable portion of the child tax credit), section 32(a) (earned income credit), and section 36A(d) (making work pay credit).
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According to a recent IRS publication: No. Unlike withholding credits, which are allowed to the person who is taxed on the income from which the tax is withheld, a registered domestic partner can take credit only for the estimated tax payments that he or she made.
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According to a recent IRS publication: Yes. Because each registered domestic partner is taxed on half the combined community income earned by the partners, each is entitled to a credit for half of the income tax withheld on the combined wages.
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According to a recent IRS publication: Half of the income, deductions, and net earnings of a business operated by a registered domestic partner must be reported by each registered domestic partner on a Schedule C (or Schedule C-EZ). In addition, each registered domestic partner owes self-employment tax on half of the net earnings of the business. Although the employment tax rules prohibit spouses from treating net earnings as community income (section 1402(a)(5)), registered domestic partners are not spouses as defined by federal law and this provision does not apply to them.
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According to recent IRS publication: Generally, to qualify as a head-of-household, a taxpayer must provide more than half the cost of maintaining his or her household during the taxable year, and that household must be the principal place of abode of the taxpayer’s dependent for more than half of the taxable year. If registered domestic partners pay all of the costs of maintaining the household from community funds, each partner is considered to have incurred half the cost and neither can qualify as head of household. However, if one of the partners pays more than half by contributing separate funds, that partner may qualify as head-of-household.
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How do registered domestic partners determine their gross income for 2010?
Registered domestic partners must each report half the combined community income earned by the partners. In addition to half of the community income, a partner who has income that is not community income must report that separate income.
For more information see IRS http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=245869,00.htmlAccording to a recent IRS publication:Can Yes. A registered domestic partner may itemize or claim the standard deduction regardless of whether his or her partner itemizes or claims the standard deduction. Although the law prohibits one spouse from itemizing deductions if the other spouse claims the standard deduction (section 63(c)(6)(A)), registered domestic partners are not spouses as defined by federal law and this provision does not apply to them.
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