If you support your mother or father, but they did not live with you, you may still be able to claim them as a Qualifying Person for the Head of Household filing status. In order to do this, you must be able to claim them as your dependent, and you must have paid more than half the cost of keeping up the home in which they lived for the entire year. If your parent lived in a rest home, nursing home, or home for the elderly, you are considered to have kept up their main home if you paid more than half of the cost of them living there.
If you can claim someone as a dependent only because of a multiple support agreement where several people provide someone's support , then you cannot count them as a Qualifying Person for Head of Household status.
Yes, there is a rule for this. If your Qualifying Person is a child who was kidnapped, and thus did not live with you, you are still entitled to file as Head of Household if the following 3 statements are true:. If multiple years pass before the child is recovered, you may file as Head of Household for each year in which the above statements hold true, until the year during which the child would turn 18, or until the child is determined to be deceased.
It is easy to file as Head of Household on eFile. Choosing your filing status is one of the first things you do when you start preparing your tax return. When you claim the Head of Household filing status, we will report that filing status on your tax return. Get Your Tax Refund Date. What is DocuClix? Security About eFile. Where Is My Refund? How to Check Refund Status efile.
Mailing Addresses Contact eFile. Sign In Start Now. Filing Status. Join Taxesfaction! More eFiler Reviews. Why Choose eFile. TaxTalk With Tess. Prepare and eFile your Tax Returns on eFile. Got Questions? Contact us now Continue Cancel. For many people who file as head of household, their qualifying dependent is a child. A qualifying child can be your biological child, stepchild, foster child, sibling, step sibling, half sibling or a descendant of one of the aforementioned relatives.
The child also needs to be under the age of 19 or under the age of 24 if a full-time student. 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. It stands to reason that claims for head-of-household status made predominantly by lower-income taxpayers may not be a top tax enforcement priority for the IRS.
However, the government has clearly flagged the issue, meaning that all taxpayers should be sure get their houses in order. Skip Navigation. Key Points. They also benefit from wider tax brackets on lower income levels, among other benefits. Suspecting abuse, Congress recently required tax preparers to get documentation that qualifies someone to be a head of household.
To claim head-of-household status, you must be legally single, pay more than half of household expenses and have either a qualified dependent living with you for at least half the year or a parent for whom you pay more than half their living arrangements. VIDEO There are three key requirements to qualify as a head of household: You are unmarried, recently divorced or legally separated from a spouse. That means you must have lived in a residence apart from your spouse for at least the last six months of the year.
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