Am I eligible for Head of Household (HOH) filing status if my girlfriend lives with me all year and does not work and I can claim her as a dependent?
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Am I eligible for Head of Household (HOH) filing status if my girlfriend lives with me all year and does not work and I can claim her as a dependent?
tks
bw
My instinct says no. But the rules are confusing.
She is not your qualifying child (includes your own children even if adopted, brother/sister, descendants of these). See page 18 of the
1040 instructions.She could be a qualifying relative (includes any person who lived with you and who made less than $3,650) so check all the rules on page 19 of the 1040 instructions to be sure.
But in head of household they say
Test 2. You paid over half the cost of keeping up a home in which you lived and in which one of the following also lived for more than half of the year (if half or less, see Exception to time lived with you on this page).
Rule (2) above seems to disqualify you from claiming head of household. But the rule is confusing because to be a dependent they have to meet many rules, which the time rule being one of them.
He fails the test because an unrelated person is not a qualifying person for filing as head of household even if the person is a dependent.
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