Head of Household Filing Status Tax Year 2018
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Single With A Dependent
If you were single with dependents in 2018, find out if you could file as Head of Household. You could enjoy lower tax rates, a higher standard deduction, and qualify more easily for different tax credits. A lot of single parents are Heads of Household and so are other unmarried people with dependents (and, with some exception, legally married people - see details on unmarried persons). To file as a Head of Household, you have to be unmarried (details for unmarried exceptions) and you have to support a qualifying person.
How to Know If Someone Is Your Qualifying Person
It can be tricky to figure out if someone is your qualifying person. If you have a dependent on a tax return, they may or may not also count as your qualifying person. A dependent is not always a qualifying person and you don't necessarily have to claim a qualifying person as a dependent.
Confused? Don't worry, we've made it easy for you! Just use the free Head of Household tool on this page. When filing a current year tax return on eFile.com, we handle all of this for you based on your answers so you can select the filing status that best fits your situation.
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