Subject: claim dependents ?

From: [email-masked] (Yi Guo)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 19:59:26 CST

>From last week's (or the week before last week) U.S. News and World Report,
there is a section on tax tips for 1993 tax filing.  It said that you can claim
your parents, children as dependent even if they don't live with you.  

A question on this:
Do family members in China qualify for the dependent claim?  If so, I believe
many of us can write off some additional amounts in the tax returns.  What are
the provisions to claim someone as dependents?  What proof is needed to show
the claim (if a tax audit is performed)?

Thanks for any replies!