<prompt> Human: Im a 21 year old college student. I made over 40k this year as income. My parents pay 0 towards my college tuition. I am not a dependent and I told my parents not to list me as one, but surprise surprise they did anyways. I tried filing my tax returns on HR Block and the IRS rejected it. How do I override being claimed as a dependent? Besides the fact that I actually am not a dependent, my calculations also show that I would get so much more money back as a non-dependent, which is why I dont want to be claimed as a dependent.EDIT: Thank you guys so much for your support. How much money would my parents get from claiming me as a dependent if they earn below 20k per year? I would lose about 1.3k from being claimed as a dependent. Would they get more than 1.3k? UPDATE: thank you all so much for the help. I dont live with my parents, I live on-campus and am on my schools provided health insurance. Im going to just let my parents claim me as a dependent. They can just keep the whatever money theyll get from it. They need it more and its not worth the trouble of mailing it, sorting things out with the IRS, etc.Assistant: Are you under their medical, vision, dental insurance AND is it your primary insurance like you dont have any insurance with your employer? Do they pay your car insurance? Do you use a car that has their name on the title? Do they pay your cellphone bill? Did your parents issue you a credit card and do you use it?Im going to assume you are a full-time college student who most likely doesnt live at home. In this case, the live-away-from-home requirement doesnt apply if the reason why you dont is because of school. There are other ways your parents can support you financially, even if they dont necessarily pay your tuition and it can easily come up to 20k in your support. If you answered yes to any of the above questions AND the grand total of it all comes to more than half of your income, then yes your parents can claim you as a dependent.Even though you may not trust your parents in their decision to claim you, try to give the accountant who calculated their taxes the benefit of the doubt at least. Heshe had to put all the numbers heshe had in to determine whether or not your parents claimed you. It sucks cuz you dont get the money, but until you can support yourself in the questions I asked above, its still valid.BUT. If none of the above applies to you and you didnt give your parents your w-2 to avoid them having to claim you, they can totally still file and wrongfully claim you as a dependent. In that case, paper file so they can amend their return. Double sucks to have this happen.Human: Thanks! The only thing they pay is my cell phone bill and for my food when I visit. I think I will paper file, and have them amend the return but its not like they would be losing any from it since they can still claim me as an EIC even if Im not a dependent. Why does it double suck to have that happen? Will they get penalized for having to amend?  <response>: Good good. I would work on getting off their cell phone bill in the near future to officially claim independence from them. It double sucks cuz one, you have your parents essentially being jerks and then two, having to uncover the deception and fix it. Im really sorry you have to go through that : My parents sound like yours when I was just graduated from college. Unfortunately, I didnt make enough at that time to not be a dependent 