I live with my daughter and boyfriend. We live in his parents house. We live downstairs which is our own apartment but there is only one address. we don't have to pay rent since they own the house and we split all the bills in half. His parents are living off of retirement and SS and I belive disabilities. Can i file for head of household if they do?
2007-01-09 08:24:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
If you split bills in half, then you're not providing over half of the cost of supporting the household - plus the value of the apartment is being provided to you and your daughter and her boyfriend by his parents - so you'd have a real hard time arguing that you personally provided more than half of the cost of maintaining the household. So that would say no, you can't claim head of household, whatever his parents do - and assuming they're married, they might be filing joint but could not file as head of household.
Unless your daughter is your dependent, you could not file as head of household anyway, even if you did pay over half the cost of maintaining the household.
2007-01-09 14:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes your apartment downstairs will qualify you as separate living quarters. The one address does not matter.
2007-01-09 16:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by spicertax 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the first answer is wrong. only one person per houshold can claim head of houshold. you can probably get away with it but you risk getting adited inthe future.
it doesnt amtter that you have a "basement apt" if it is the same address then it is considered the same household
2007-01-09 16:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by Tissa 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋