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What is the Form 8839?
Form 8839 is the IRS form taxpayers use to figure and claim the adoption credit and any employer-provided adoption benefits they can exclude from income for an eligible child.
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Who files Form 8839?
Taxpayers who paid qualified adoption expenses to adopt an eligible child, or who received employer-provided adoption benefits, file Form 8839 with their federal tax return to claim the adoption credit or exclude those benefits. You enter each child's information and your expenses on the form.
Is filling out the Form 8839 here free?
Filling it in is free, with no signup and no watermark. Downloading the completed form is a one-time $1.97 — not a subscription, and refundable for 7 days.
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Yes. This is the official, current Form 8839 published by the U.S. government, which is public domain. You fill the genuine document.
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