If your spouse earns more than you and therefore pays most of the house maintenance, and she is out of town most of the time travelling on work related trips, would she qualify as head of house hold?
2007-03-08 04:50:49 · 4 answers · asked by Trinity 4 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
If you are married you have 2 choices of filing status.
Married Filing Joint
or
Married Filing Separately
Publication 501
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p501/ar02.html#d0e1296
2007-03-08 05:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Someone who is married and restiding with their spouse can NOT file as head of household. Being out of town a lot doesn't change that. And by the way, the rates for filing a joint return are better anyway than head of household.
2007-03-08 08:43:30 · answer #2 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually people who file as head of household are single parents, grandparents who are raising grandkids, and others who have child(ren) to qualify them for the better tax rate, but who do not have a spouse so they can file as married.
2007-03-08 04:56:17 · answer #3 · answered by smartypants909 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In rare cases would a married couple have an advantage to have one file head of household (because the other spouse must then file "married filing separately").
You need to file separately and would normally end up with a bigger tax hit.
2007-03-08 05:00:04 · answer #4 · answered by Captain Jack 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋