l rent out a room in my house and we are disagreeing about who will file head of household. Is it possible to get like apt. A and apt B. so that there is separate addresses? If so how? l was told by someone to just put down apt. B. but that seem like an audit waiting to happen... can l do this?
Could someone please answer this!!! Please....
l am married so my husband would be filing head of household....but is there a way to go through the usps and get a second address. And if he is able to file before we are and claim head of household then how would that effect us on our taxes.
Okay...one last time, l apologize...i probably should have put in exact detail to begin with. We share rent with another married couple. So therefore if they put married filing jointly and we put married filing jointly....then it should be fine?Nothing wrong with that right...? l think l put all the details now.

l am confused. You r married? You live with ur husband & u rent a room to this 3rd person?

If the third person files as HOH, it will not mess up ur taxes--since u & ur husband will file as Married Filing Jointly. Your husband can file without you, but he'd have to file as Married Filing Separately. Living with u precludes any attempt by him to file as HOH.

As for person B. When he files as HOH, he will get audited. The audit will ask him to show where he was living, how he paid more than half of the total bills & who his dependent was. While he can produce the checks he used to pay rent, he wo not have anything to show that he paid the Electricity bill--thus knocking out his claim.

You will still be okay in this audit as when the IRS pulls ur return they will see both the Married Filing Joint status as well as ur declaration of the rent paid to you.

Who owns the house? You? Then u have rental income. If u r both paying rent to a 3rd party, it is sharing of expenses.

First, if u r living together & married, it is illegal for him (or you) to file as head of household. It is legal to file as head of household only if either unmarried or living apart.

Second, obtaining a separate address for the room that u rent out would not have any income tax implications, because neither u nor ur husband live them. To be living apart, u have to be living at different addresses than each other. Having a second address where neither of u lives will not help.

If you are married, you have two filing choices: Married (joint) or Married Filing Separately. You or your husband cannot file as Head of Household. Neither can the other married couple. Makes no difference who rents to who.

You r making this way too complicated. If u r married, then taxwise ur husband is NOT head of household, but u can file a joint return which actually has lower rates than HofH. He can not legally file as head of household if he is married. If the other couple u share the house with is also married, then they can file a joint return also but can not file as head of household.

Head of household is a filing status for someone who is unmarried, but provides over half the cost of maintaining a household for a dependent. From the info in ur question, none of the four of u can file as head of household.