Hey guys, last year my family fell into homelessness, my awesome boyfriend (now fiance) came to the rescue and helped get us back on our feet so my mother told him to file my sister for taxes since he paid for so much stuff (food,rent,utilities,extracurricular activity fees for my younger sister) . We went to H&R Block and the representative asked how my sister was related to him and we told her the situation and she was like "that's fine, you can still file her since you provided care", fast forward to last month and he gets a letter in the mail saying he's being audited so we call the IRS and tell them that we did them professionally blah blah blah, turns out in 2015 the IRS no longer allowed people to file children who had no blood relation to them.
I just don't understand why the woman who did the filing did not tell us about this law since it had been active for 2 years. The worst thing is we looked through the giant folder that H&R Block gave him after we got the IRS letter and the person who did the filing put down my sister as his daughter. Which is not what we told her, we even brought in her birth certificate/photo ID because we weren't sure what to bring.
We aren't sure what to do, he wouldn't be audited by the IRS if it wasn't for H&R Block. What can we do to not have to pay back this money?
Submitted October 08, 2017 at 08:39PM by valleycrusin637 http://ift.tt/2y90QCL
