Listen buddy, they know these things.

On Saturday a client comes in, we'll call him "Daddy," wanting to get a refund loan. In order to get a loan on your tax return, you must efile, and the efile goes through the IRS.

I was downloading communitions on the files that we've sent to the IRS, and I got a reject message for Daddy, stating that there was a discrepency with the name or social of of one of Daddy's "children." I called Daddy and found out that the LAST name we had for the "child" was incorrect. I changed that and put it through again. Got another message from the IRS stating that the birthdate was incorrect so I called "Daddy" again.

"Child's" birth year (as listed, in client's handwriting), 199x
"Child's" birth year (as CORRECTED by "Daddy"), 196x

Daddy's birth year, 196x

Man Daddy - you must have been one HECK of a playboy when you were under 10 years old.

You can lie to the tax preparers, if you don't bring in your "kids" they have no way of knowing and can only go with the information you give them.

But you can not lie to the computers. The IRS has a database that is (sometimes somewhat) in sync with the Social Security Administration.

Your *KID* is a bit older than 10. Sorry you don't get the Child Tax Credit.