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This link is to make the transition more convenient for you. Even if you are still legally married, you may be considered unmarried for the purposes of the Head of Household filing status if all of the following statements are true:. You are still considered to have lived with your spouse in your home if you only lived apart due to temporary absences. A temporary absence includes living away from the home for the purposes of school, business, military service, medical treatment, or vacation, with the expectation of returning to the home after the absence.
You can be considered unmarried single for the purpose of filing as Head of Household if your spouse was a nonresident alien anytime during the year and you do not choose to treat them as a resident alien for tax purposes. But you are considered married if you choose to treat your spouse as a resident alien on your tax return. Your spouse cannot be a qualifying person, so you must have another qualifying person to be eligible to file as a Head of Household.
To figure out if you paid more than half the cost of keeping up a home, you must first determine the total cost. All of the following expenses should be included when determining the total cost of keeping up a home:. Once you figure the total cost, simply halve the number and compare the result to your actual expenses to see if you paid more. You are considered to have paid more than half the cost of keeping up a home if you paid a greater portion of the total cost than anybody else did, even if you actually paid less than half of the total cost.
If you paid any costs of keeping up your home with funds received from TANF or other public assistance programs, you may not include those amounts in the expenses you paid. However, you must still count these expenses toward the total cost of keeping up a home. A Qualifying Person is someone who qualifies you to file as Head of Household if they lived with you in your home for more than half the year, not counting temporary absences.
Your parent, however, does not have to live with you to be a Qualifying Person. Many dependents will count as a Qualifying Person for Head of Household, but some dependents will not. And a Qualifying Person does not necessarily have to be a dependent. So who does count as a Qualifying Person?
Any of the following can be a Qualifying Person:. Child Who Is a Qualifying Person, example 1: Your single daughter, who was 18 years old on December 31, lived with you all year and had no income, so she did not provide more than half of her own support.
She was a full-time student and lived on campus while attending school, so she is considered to have lived with you. She paid some of her own expenses, but did not pay more than half of her own support.
She is your Qualifying Child and single, so she is a Qualifying Person. She is too old to be your Qualifying Child, and she made too much money to be your Qualifying Relative, so you cannot claim her as a dependent. Therefore, she is not a Qualifying Person for Head of Household.
Girlfriend or Boyfriend : Your girlfriend lived with you all year and had no income. You can also claim these relatives as your qualifying dependent if the person is permanently and totally disabled, regardless of age. Other non-child qualifying dependents include a parent, step parent, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle and daughter-, son-, mother- or father-in-law.
The same is true for a child who is away at college. Head of household filers also benefit from a higher standard deduction. Deductions reduce your taxable income for the year, which can bring your tax bill down or bump up the size of your refund. Speaking of the tax year, the current tax deadline is April 15 in For reference, your tax return had to be filed by May 17 in which was extended because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the case where only one of you has a child from a previous relationship, the biological parent can claim HOH status — and the other can claim single status. In order to claim both the child and non-earning partner as qualifying dependents, the following would have to be true:. If there are no children, you can still claim a live-in boyfriend or girlfriend as a qualifying dependent, as long as you meet the following is true:.
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