Sorry for your loss. When did your spouse pass? Do you have a child?
You can file a Joint return the year your spouse died. For the next two years following a husband's or wife's death, the surviving spouse can file as a qualifying widow or widower if they have a qualifying child. That basically lets you continue to use the same tax brackets that apply to married-filing-jointly returns. After the year of death if you don't have a child you file as Single.
Then to file Single you should start over and set up a new account for yourself and not transfer from last year. You will have to re enter any prior carryovers and depreciation, etc. manually.
So sorry for your loss. When did your spouse pass away? Fo the year that your spouse died, you could file a joint return. For the next two years, you can file as a Qualifying Surviving Spouse IF you have a qualified dependent. If you do not have a dependent, then you file Single. Have you entered a dependent?
Sorry for your loss. When did your spouse pass? Do you have a child?
You can file a Joint return the year your spouse died. For the next two years following a husband's or wife's death, the surviving spouse can file as a qualifying widow or widower if they have a qualifying child. That basically lets you continue to use the same tax brackets that apply to married-filing-jointly returns. After the year of death if you don't have a child you file as Single.
Then to file Single you should start over and set up a new account for yourself and not transfer from last year. You will have to re enter any prior carryovers and depreciation, etc. manually.
online version does not have that option
no children and passed in 2023
@chuckstlou If your spouse passed in 2023, then in 2023 you could file a joint return. Now that you are working on 2024, you file Single since you say you have no children.
When you switch from filing a joint return to filing Single, you need to start over in a new account with a new user ID. The old account will have embedded data that will cause errors if you try to use it for filing as Single.
@Roy1969 wrote:
My wife passed away in 2023. No child to support.
You will need to file as Single on the 2024 tax return.