Angie would get the EIC and claim the standard deduction; Alex would claim 1 child and
use head of household filing status and claim all the itemized deductions.
Not exact matches
Jane remains eligible to
use the child to potentially claim
head of household filing status, the earned income credit, and the credit for daycare expenses (assuming,
of course, that she meets the other qualification for those things).
Each individual must
use the tax rates corresponding to the single or
head of household filing status, whichever applies.
Divorced taxpayers who do not qualify to
use the
head of household status will generally
file as single.
However, it may be more beneficial to
use Form 1040 or Form 1040A, since those forms allow taxpayers to claim «
head of household»
status (which typically results in a lower tax than
filing as «single»), dependents, and various credits and adjustments to income.
Head of household: a
filing status used by an unmarried taxpayer who pays over half
of the cost
of maintaining the home
of a qualified individual
Can be
filed by taxpayers
using any
of the
filing status options: single,
head of household, surviving spouses, and couples who
file married
filing jointly or married
filing separately.