<prompt> Human: Each month, I have been paying roughly 1300 to my mother directly for her mortgage, car, and utility payments. She does not live in my household in fact, lives a few states away. By year-end, I will have paid over 10k. Is there any tax break I can receive for supporting her financially?Assistant: She would have to be a qualifying relative, which would require her gross income be under 3900: You would also have to provide at least half of her total support.Human: If I send her personal checks amounting to 10k a year to pay her bills, is that treated as her income? EDIT: Edited for clarity.  <response>: No, certainly not. Income would be money that gets reported to the IRS and is taxable whether or not she makes enough to generate an actual tax liability.And then if you give her 10k, her total living expenses would need to be under 20k. 