Head Of Household
Head of Household is a filing status for individual United States taxpayers.
In order to use the Head of Household filing status, the taxpayer must do the following:
- Be unmarried or considered unmarried as of the last day of the tax year;
- Have paid more than half the cost of keeping up a home for the tax year (either one's own home or the home of a qualifying parent); and
- In most cases, have a qualifying person who lived with the head in the home for more than half of the tax year except if the qualifying person is a dependent parent. (See Special rule for parents.)
Read more about Head Of Household: Advantages, Considered Unmarried, Keeping Up A Home, Qualifying Person
Famous quotes containing the words head of, head and/or household:
“He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 5:21-25.
“Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child’s approval, more alert to the child’s emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child’s suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon—the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)