“Enter the number of people who live with your parents and are financially dependent on your parents for at least half of their daily living expenses. Always include yourself (even if you do not live with your parents) and your parents.”
Our housekeeper lives in our house. She gets a salary but we don’t ask her to pay for food and lodging anymore, so her basic salary has no deductions and she relies on us for all the necessities except clothing.
Boy, I sure wouldn’t think that the live-in housekeeper is a dependent for Profile purposes. She’s an employee. She’s definitely not a dependent for tax purposes.
No. This employee is not a dependent. Your family is paying her a salary.
And no…you can’t deduct her salary from your family income either.
If your parents are paying this housekeeper a salary and she works more than a certain number of hours a week ( which is likely the case if she is a live in housekeeper), your family is supposed to pay into social security for this employee, I believe.
@middkid86 what do you think? No deductions for a live in housekeeper? Anyone else here remember Zoe Baird?
^^Right, living there is a job requirement or benefit. She is not a dependent on taxes or fafsa.
Also, I assume that you are not including her Schedule H taxes in your income tax liability from page 2 of 1040 reported on the FAFSA.
@Monkeysphere
Are you an international student? If so, the tax laws in the United Stares would not apply to you.
But still…your live in housekeeper is not a dependent. She is an employee.
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Our housekeeper lives in our house. She gets a salary
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And yet you needed fee waivers for apps? I think your family needs to get rid of your housekeeper.
If this is an international student…how did they get fee waivers?
And I don’t think those are available for submission of the Profile or the SAT scores for international students.
Int’l s can contact a school and ask for a fee waiver from that school.
Housekeepers are so cheap in some countries that even the housekeepers have housekeepers in their own homes… It is a paradoxical joke, but nevertheless true sometimes.