Form 2441 is the IRS form for child and dependent care expenses. The IRS says if you paid someone to care for your child or other qualifying person so you could work or look for work, you may be able to take the credit. RepeatForm reuses your care provider details year to year: upload last year's form and a blank, then review.
Tested with the irs.gov edition dated 2025
irs.gov says "If you paid someone to care for your child or other qualifying person so you (and your spouse if filing jointly) could work or look for work, you may be able to take the credit for child and dependent care expenses." The form says "Attach to Form 1040, 1040-SR, or 1040-NR." RepeatForm does not work out the credit or any limit.
The IRS instructions say "A qualifying person is any of the following" and list a qualifying child under age 13 whom you can claim as a dependent, a disabled spouse, and another disabled person, with conditions. They add: "To be a qualifying person, generally the person must have lived with you for more than half of 2025." For who is a qualifying child and who is a dependent, they point to Pub. 501. Those rules are for you or an adviser to apply.
The instructions say "You (and your spouse if filing jointly) must have earned income to take the credit or exclude dependent care benefits from your income. But see If You or Your Spouse Was a Student or Disabled, later, if either of these circumstances applies." Line 4 of the form asks for your earned income, and the instructions define it; RepeatForm does not.
Part I asks for the person or organization who provided the care. The instructions say "Complete columns (a) through (e) for each person or organization that provided the care. You can use Form W-10, Dependent Care Provider's Identification and Certification, or any other source listed in its instructions to get the information from the care provider. If you don't give correct or complete information, your credit (and exclusion, if applicable) may be disallowed unless you can show you used due diligence in trying to get the required information." The form also cautions: "If the care provider is your household employee, you may owe employment taxes."
Upload the Form 2441 you completed last year and this year's blank; RepeatForm carries the matching answers across; you review them, then preview the PDF before you export. When the same provider cares for the child again, the provider's name, address and identifying number are the part you save retyping.
The IRS publishes a Form 2441 for each tax year. Carrying a prior year's copy into the new one works for many answers, but some fields are renamed or moved and match only partly, so check every line on the new year's form in Review before you export.
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The IRS instructions say you "must have earned income to take the credit or exclude dependent care benefits from your income," and the form's line 4 asks you to enter your earned income and refers you to the instructions. The instructions define the term and have rules for a student or disabled spouse. RepeatForm does not decide what counts, so read the instructions for line 4.
The IRS instructions say "A qualifying person is any of the following": a qualifying child under age 13 whom you can claim as a dependent, a disabled spouse, or another disabled person who meets listed conditions. They also say "generally the person must have lived with you for more than half" of the year. Pub. 501 covers who is a qualifying child and a dependent.
The instructions say "You (and your spouse if filing jointly) must have earned income to take the credit," but point to the section "If You or Your Spouse Was a Student or Disabled" for those cases. Read that section for your situation; RepeatForm does not apply it.
You can reuse your name, social security number, and each care provider's name, address and identifying number, where they match. Amounts, earned income and the household-employee answer change each year, so enter them again and check every line in Review.
