Can your parents be a dependent?

[Melissa K. Powell]

My parents who are retired with no earned income,but do receive Social Security money live on our land in a mobile home that we provide for them. We pay their power bill, provide their water, pay insurance on the mobile home, and frequently feed them.


I would like to know if we can claim them as dependents? If we can then how? If we cannot please explain why.

[aaron]

Are they filing their own tax returns, claiming their own personal deductions?

[Fxston]

Check out this link: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc354.html

[Melissa K. Powell]

No they will not be filing this year. I'm going to the link now to see what it says.