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Old 05-12-2008, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by nightowlrn View Post
Why does it seem unfair? You paid less in taxes than you would have otherwise because you had dependents to claim. If your son had received the rebate, it would have been a double bonus of sorts for your family.

We gave our son the $ he would have received had we not claimed him. We saved on our taxes, PLUS we get the rebate, too. Perhaps you can do the same and then it won't be unfair for your boys.
Yeah, that's exactly what my dad did. Had he not claimed us, his return would have went from like 8K to like 3k! Thats insane! So he said he would give us the money that we would lose by him claiming us.
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