Using TT Deluxe to file my daughter's taxes. She is 25, owns her own home and had a new baby daughter in Sept of 2023. TurboTax had a note that if the child was born in 2023, to mark that they lived with my daughter the "whole year". This is the guidance in the tool, versus stating 4 months. When marking the whole year and stating she was single and paid more than half of her household expenses, it set her status as Head of Household.
IRS publications state that a qualifying child must have lived with you for at least 6 months to use HOH filing status. Is TurboTax handling this incorrectly by using the newborn for the Child Tax Credit but not considering the number of months for HOH status?
