Jedi Accountant
With the Talz having signed a tax treaty with the Karideph tax authorities, it was easier, but by no means easy, for the new clients that did business in both Talz space and on Karideph to get their taxes in order. The first client of the day was a Talz advertising executive that, although a Talz resident for tax purposes, works for a Karideph-based employer and is taxed as such. Divorced from her former husband three years ago (and she suspects Kari taxes have something to do with the divorce) she has custody of both kids, one 17 years old, and the oldest has 18. The divorce decree is to provide that the client claims the children as dependents for both Talz and Kari taxes. (The distinction needs to be made between alimony and child support for tax purposes: Talz tax alimony received in the hands of the payee, and is tax-deductible for the payor, but Kari don't, and both races consider child support payments to be non-taxable to the payee and non-deductible for the payor). What's obvious here is that the client holds head-of-household status for Kari taxes (Talz tribes sometimes have a HH filing status but there is no unified standard at the federal level).