| Tax filing? I didn't think to claim my parents |
"A 85-year-old woman from Massachusetts surprised tax preparer William Philbrick by trying to claim her parents as dependents on her tax return ... even though they were long deceased.
"When I questioned the exemptions, she whipped out the instructions and proceeded to go through the tests: no income, related to her, did not file a tax return [and weren't claimed as dependents by anyone else]," said Philbrick, senior vice president at Greenberg, Rosenblatt, Kull & Bitsoli, P.C.
While he thought the woman was pretty clever, Philbrick still turned down the deduction.
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Note: Not related photograph from Diabetes diet dialogue, Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived to be 122 years old, died in 1997, Aries, France.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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