Any advice on this situation would be good.

[Yax]

I know a couple of refugees. They came to America after their father was killed while doing missions for the CIA. They had to flee their native country.

The older bro has a couple of kids but his wife is handicapped and he had trouble supporting them so the younger brother, who had a better job, helped out. They all lived together.

Anyway, the younger brother files his tax returns and includes the two children as dependents. The older brother has no beef with that. The IRS, however, audited him and decided that he needed to prove that they were brothers.

Keep in mind that they don't have any birth certificates to prove this, plus they came over to the US at different times. Now, how can they prove that they are brothers?

I hear DNA testing, but that's too expensive since they are of modest means. Any other solutions that the IRS would accept?

 

[Baked]

Why did the younger bro claimed the older bro's children again?

 

[yukichigai]

If he's supporting them then technially I think they count as dependants regardless of family relationship, provided they're under a certain age. But I'm no tax law expert.

DNA testing may be the only way to do it. He may be able to get it covered since it's all but required by the IRS in this case.

But I still don't know for sure. He really needs to talk to someone who's a tax law expert.

 

[Yax]

When he called me, he said they only need for him to send them documents to prove that this was his brother. They didn't need anything else. Its doubtful that they'd cover the DNA testing.