Filinf Status

Question 1

What are the requirements to file a joint return?

Answer 1

Parties must be married. Living together in a recognize common-law marriage. Mary in living apart.

Question 2

If a couple is married during the year, can a joint return be filed?

Answer 2

Yes, provided the parties are married at year end

Question 3

If you get a divorce during the year, can you file a joint return?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

If one spouse dies during the year, can a joint return be filed?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

If only one spouse has income for the year, can a married tax payer file a separate return?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What type of taxpayer may use the joint tax return standard deduction and rates for each of two taxable years following the year of death of his or her spouse?

Answer 6

Qualifying widower

Question 7

What must a surviving spouse do if they remarry?

Answer 7

File with join or separate with new spouse

Question 8

What are the qualifications for a surviving spice with a dependent child?

Answer 8

Must maintain household for whole taxable year

Question 9

What are the results of taxpayer filing head of household paying lower taxes?

Answer 9

Larger standard deduction

Question 10

What are the conditions to file head of household?

Answer 10

1) Not married, is legally separated, or is married and has lived apart from his spouse for the last six months of the year as of the close of the taxable year

2) not a qualifying widower
3) not a non-resident alien

4)Maintains is his or her or her home a household that for more than half the txablw year is the principal residence of
Dependent son or daughter, father or mother, dependent relatives