A stranger claimed me as a dependent on their income tariff!?

I'm very worried right now.

My mom go to declare me as a dependent, but the tax guy said that she couldn't, because someone else already have. There are only two other family member who could've done this: we'll call them Oscar and Micky. She thought one of them might have declared me contained by order to get the "rebate" explicitly given when you declare a college student as your dependent. Well, Micky didn't even file this year due to low income, and Oscar promises it wasn't him. Mom and I trust both of them, and we don't mull over they are lying.

I did have my social security card stolen from me rear in December, when I was robbed. I usually don't get it on me; I only had it next to me because I was going to an interview where I have been told to bring the original. I know I reported the incident and did the stuff you're supposed to do when this happen, but I'm still worried someone has stolen my identity.

Do you guys think my identity have been stolen? What should I do now?

Answers:    Your mom should record claiming you if she is eligible to. She'll have to mail it within. If someone else claimed you that will start an IRS investigation.

There isn't any rebate given to someone who claims a college student as their dependent - not sure where you got that.

Check your credit report near all 3 agencies to be sure there's nothing on them that isn't yours. You can use annualcreditreport.com to check online - that's the allowed site, and is free.
As far as the tax return is concerned, you mother needs to database her return claiming you by mail. The IRS will contact both parties who claimed you and require them to prove the claim.

As far as your lost SS card, you should pull all of your credit reports and check them (www.annualcreditreport.com). You can also put any a fraud alert or an actual freeze on your credit at each bureau.
Go to the police and tell them in the order of your lost soc. sec. card. Then go to the social security control and see if you can receive a new social security card. But until that time soc. sec would to issue a new number you must prove identiy theft. Go to the police, not addqa.coms!
The most credible explanation is that a tax preparer input someone else's SSN on a return incorrectly. For 2001, the only year for which even the approximate information stuck in my head, the IRS issued 270,000+ notice involving dependents' names not matching their SSNs. Everyone of those be the result of the taxpayer, or more likely the tax preparer, typing the wrong SSN or the wrong ending name when filing an electronic return.

If someone have used your SSN as the primary number on a return, I would worry. As it is, it's only an incomvenience because your mother cannot database electronically, but must file a paper return instead.


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