To clarify, I am only 17, and I was 16 when the first part of this long question/story started. My father and I have not had the best relationship for the past few years since his wife tends to be a bit on the controlling side, and his trip to rehab hasn't helped.
Last year, I filed my taxes for the first time. Shortly after I got my refund check, my father and stepmother tried to contact me claiming that I filed my taxes wrong and they need redone. They tried to claim that I would be audited and that I could go to prison for doing my taxes incorrectly, my boss reassured me that as long as I filed my taxes as a dependent that I have nothing to worry about. We talked with a friend of my mother's, and she said that my father and stepmother could be trying to commit fraud by shoveling some of their income through mine, a common and very illegal tactic. Right now, my father is trying to do the same thing, and technically this is the last year he can since I will be turning 18 next year. He claims that because he pays child support, I have to file my taxes under him in a very specific manner. Does anyone have any advice as to whether he is right or if he and my stepmother is trying to commit fraud?
Submitted December 16, 2017 at 03:31PM by god_of_computers http://ift.tt/2otnCmm
