I am living with my partner and we have a child together. We agreed that we would take turns claiming him so we don’t argue about this. I forgot to take my child as a dependent off for this year since my partner was going to claim him therefore now I owe. We go to a tax preparer and she advised us that we should both remove any dependents from W4 form as this will give us both tax refunds. I was questioning my partner about this as if I do this I feel I would not take home a good pay check and they would deduct more taxes. Is this true? Should we both remove all depends off W4 form? In addition, last year our tax preparer advised whoever will be claiming my child for the year should file as Head of Household and put only $500 in the dependent section instead of 2,000. It seems as if her answer changes every year as to what we should be doing and I am very confused. I will be claiming my son next year therefore unsure if i should file as single or head of household and if i should remove my son as a dependent or keep the $2,000 in there for him. I am also pretty confused on if i should be putting anything in the allowance part as she advised us to put zero as well.
