Maintaining Home in 2024

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April 13, 2025
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TurboTax asks the question, "Did you maintain your home in 2024?"

Individual owns a home

Mortgage is in the name of the same individual

The same individual has a Fiance resides in the home

Fiance pays rent to this individual an amount which is identical to the individual's mortgage payment on a monthly basis

Both pay household expenses equally - so the answer to the question is Yes? and No?

The noted individual does NOT have a business in the home

What is the implication if the Fiance (who is not the home owner) pays, for example 60% of the houshold expenses and the individual homeowner pays 40%? Should the Fiance answer that he maintains a home even if he is not the homeowner?

Or vice versa - --

What if it is determined that the individual maintains the home and satisfies more than 50% of the household expenses (but again, does NOT have a business in the home) - what is the implication to the individual? what is the implication to the Fiance when he files his own tax return (Single)?

Help!

Thank you.

xmasbaby0

Employee

If you are trying to file as Head of Household, you must have a qualifying dependent. Do you have a child to claim as a dependent? Your BF or GF cannot be your qualified dependent for HOH filing status. What are you trying to do?

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MaxRLCAuthor

Individual has a dependent child and is eligible to file HOH

Calculation is yet to be completed, but if the "individual" has a dependent child but is responsible for any amount less than 50% of the household (i.e., the BF Fiance is satisfying the majority of expenses - BF Fiance files separate and does NOT have dependent child) it appears the individual who have to file as "single" even though the individual has a dependent child.

It appears, as you noted, that the issue is can the individual file as HOH.

Filing HOH would be available if the individual has a dependent child and maintains the home (and that could be 51% of the household expenses.

Yes?