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Federal Free Printable 2023 Form 2441 for 2024 Federal Child and Dependent Care Expenses

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Child and Dependent Care Expenses
2023 Form 2441

2441 Child and Dependent Care Expenses Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service Attach to Form 1040, 1040-SR, or 1040-NR. Go to www.irs.gov/Form2441 for instructions and the latest information. Form Name(s) shown on return OMB No. 1545-0074 2023 Attachment Sequence No. 21 Your social security number A You can’t claim a credit for child and dependent care expenses if your filing status is married filing separately unless you meet the requirements listed in the instructions under Married Persons Filing Separately. If you meet these requirements, check this box . . B If you or your spouse was a student or was disabled during 2023 and you’re entering deemed income of $250 or $500 a month on Form 2441 based on the income rules listed in the instructions under If You or Your Spouse Was a Student or Disabled, check this box . Part I 1 Persons or Organizations Who Provided the Care—You must complete this part. If you have more than three care providers, see the instructions and check this box . . . . . . . . (a) Care provider’s name (b) Address (number, street, apt. no., city, state, and ZIP code) Did you receive dependent care benefits? (d) Was the care provider your household employee in 2023? (c) Identifying number For example, this generally includes (SSN or EIN) nannies but not daycare centers. (see instructions) Yes No Yes No Yes No No Complete only Part II below. Yes Complete Part III on page 2 next. (e) Amount paid (see instructions) Caution: If the care provider is your household employee, you may owe employment taxes. For details, see the Instructions for Schedule H (Form 1040). If you incurred care expenses in 2023 but didn’t pay them until 2024, or if you prepaid in 2023 for care to be provided in 2024, don’t include these expenses in column (d) of line 2 for 2023. See the instructions. Part II 2 Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses Information about your qualifying person(s). If you have more than three qualifying persons, see the instructions and check this box (a) Qualifying person’s name First 3 4 5 6 7 8 (b) Qualifying person’s social security number Last (c) Check here if the qualifying person was over age 12 and was disabled. (see instructions) Add the amounts in column (d) of line 2. Don’t enter more than $3,000 if you had one qualifying person or $6,000 if you had two or more persons. If you completed Part III, enter the amount from line 31 . Enter your earned income. See instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If married filing jointly, enter your spouse’s earned income (if you or your spouse was a student or was disabled, see the instructions); all others, enter the amount from line 4 . . . . . . Enter the smallest of line 3, 4, or 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enter the amount from Form 1040, 1040-SR, or 1040-NR, line 11 . . . 7 Enter on line 8 the decimal amount shown below that applies to the amount on line 7. If line 7 is: But not Over over $0—15,000 15,000—17,000 17,000—19,000 19,000—21,000 21,000—23,000 23,000—25,000 Decimal amount is .35 .34 .33 .32 .31 .30 If line 7 is: Over But not over $25,000—27,000 27,000—29,000 29,000—31,000 31,000—33,000 33,000—35,000 35,000—37,000 Decimal amount is .29 .28 .27 .26 .25 .24 If line 7 is: Over But not over $37,000—39,000 39,000—41,000 41,000—43,000 43,000—No limit (d) Qualified expenses you incurred and paid in 2023 for the person listed in column (a) 3 4 5 6 Decimal amount is .23 .22 .21 .20 9a Multiply line 6 by the decimal amount on line 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b If you paid 2022 expenses in 2023, complete Worksheet A in the instructions. Enter the amount from line 13 of the worksheet here. Otherwise, enter -0- on line 9b and go to line 9c . . . . c Add lines 9a and 9b and enter the result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Tax liability limit. Enter the amount from the Credit Limit Worksheet in the instructions 10 11 Credit for child and dependent care expenses. Enter the smaller of line 9c or line 10 here and on Schedule 3 (Form 1040), line 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see your tax return instructions. Cat. No. 11862M 8 X. 9a 9b 9c 11 Form 2441 (2023) Page 2 Form 2441 (2023) Part III Dependent Care Benefits 12 Enter the total amount of dependent care benefits you received in 2023. Amounts you received as an employee should be shown in box 10 of your Form(s) W-2. Don’t include amounts reported as wages in box 1 of Form(s) W-2. If you were self-employed or a partner, include amounts you received under a dependent care assistance program from your sole proprietorship or partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Enter the amount, if any, you carried over from 2022 and used in 2023 during the grace period. See instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If you forfeited or carried over to 2024 any of the amounts reported on line 12 or 13, enter the amount. See instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Combine lines 12 through 14. See instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enter the total amount of qualified expenses incurred in 2023 for the care of the qualifying person(s) . . . . . . . . . . 16 Enter the smaller of line 15 or 16 . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Enter your earned income. See instructions . . . . . . . 18 Enter the amount shown below that applies to you. • If married filing jointly, enter your spouse’s earned income (if you or your spouse was a student or was disabled, see the . . . . . 19 instructions for line 5). • If married filing separately, see instructions. • All others, enter the amount from line 18. Enter the smallest of line 17, 18, or 19 . . . . . . . . . 20 Enter $5,000 ($2,500 if married filing separately and you were required to enter your spouse’s earned income on line 19). However, don’t enter more than the maximum amount allowed under your dependent care plan. See instructions . . . . . 21 Is any amount on line 12 or 13 from your sole proprietorship or partnership? No. Enter -0-. Yes. Enter the amount here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subtract line 22 from line 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Deductible benefits. Enter the smallest of line 20, 21, or 22. Also, include this amount on the appropriate line(s) of your return. See instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Excluded benefits. If you checked “No” on line 22, enter the smaller of line 20 or line 21. Otherwise, subtract line 24 from the smaller of line 20 or line 21. If zero or less, enter -0. . Taxable benefits. Subtract line 25 from line 23. If zero or less, enter -0-. Also, enter this amount on Form 1040, 1040-SR, or 1040-NR, line 1e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 12 13 14 ( 15 ) } 22 24 25 26 To claim the child and dependent care credit, complete lines 27 through 31 below. 27 28 29 30 31 Enter $3,000 ($6,000 if two or more qualifying persons) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Add lines 24 and 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subtract line 28 from line 27. If zero or less, stop. You can’t take the credit. Exception. If you paid 2022 expenses in 2023, see the instructions for line 9b . . . . . . . . . . . . Complete line 2 on page 1 of this form. Don’t include in column (d) any benefits shown on line 28 above. Then, add the amounts in column (d) and enter the total here . . . . . . . . Enter the smaller of line 29 or 30. Also, enter this amount on line 3 on page 1 of this form and complete lines 4 through 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 28 29 30 31 Form 2441 (2023)
Extracted from PDF file 2023-federal-form-2441.pdf, last modified December 2023

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If you pay for child care (for children under age 13), so that you and your spouse could work or look for work, you may be able to file this credit.

We last updated the Child and Dependent Care Expenses in January 2024, so this is the latest version of Form 2441, fully updated for tax year 2023. You can download or print current or past-year PDFs of Form 2441 directly from TaxFormFinder. You can print other Federal tax forms here.

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Historical Past-Year Versions of Federal Form 2441

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2023 Form 2441

2023 Form 2441

2022 Form 2441

2022 Form 2441

2021 Form 2441

2021 Form 2441

2020 Form 2441

2020 Form 2441

2019 Form 2441

2019 Form 2441

2018 Form 2441

2018 Form 2441

2017 Form 2441

2017 Form 2441

2016 Form 2441

2016 Form 2441

Child and Dependent Care Expenses 2015 Form 2441

2015 Form 2441

Child and Dependent Care Expenses 2014 Form 2441

2014 Form 2441

Child and Dependent Care Expenses 2013 Form 2441

2013 Form 2441

Child and Dependent Care Expenses 2012 Form 2441

2012 Form 2441

Child and Dependent Care Expenses 2011 Form 2441

2011 Form 2441


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