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Posted by Rich Carreiro on March 3, 2008, 1:12 pm
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> On Mar 3, 9:05Â am, timn...@gmail.com wrote:
> > My mother was confined to a nursing home for all of 2007. Â She has
> > income from social security and a federal pension. Â The nursing home
> > (of course) is taking every penny with Medicaid picking up the gap.
> > Are filing taxes required if all her income is going to a nursing
> > home. Â If so, I assume her income minus her credits will create a
> > $0.00 net income, yes? Â Are the any rules or tricks to filing in this
> > situation? Â Thanks for any advice you can give me.
>
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> If your mother is single, age 65 or older, and her gross income (not
> including Social Security) was less than $10,050, she has no federal
> income tax filing requirement for 2007.
But to get the tax rebate she'll have to file. Though if it'll
all going to Medicaid anyway, she/you may feel it's not worth
the time to bother with.
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Rich Carreiro rlc-news@rlcarr.com
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