My specific question is whether or not I satisfy the “paid half of the cost to keep up my home in the year”
Here is a breakdown of the events this year:
From Jan to Dec I have had 2 other roommates. We split rent 1/3 each from Jan to end of Aug.
In middle of June, my younger sister moved in (sharing my room) as my dependent. (She was definitely with me more than half the nights of the year)
I began paying 1/2 of the rent Sep 1st to cover my sister’s share of the rent and my own.
Do I qualify as head of household? Some posts/articles I’m reading say a room counts as a single household in this situation, so I was paying the full rent for the room the whole year. Others say it involves the entire apartment. Just not sure what constitutes as a household in a roommate situation.
