Turbo Tax will always place you under the filing status that is most beneficial to your situation. Although you're married and filing separately, you still may qualify for the head of household filing status. This status is available to married taxpayers who are eligible to be considered unmarried for head of household filing status.
Please review the qualifications below, to ensure you qualify for this filing status.
1. You file a separate return. A separate return
includes a return claiming married filing
separately, single, or head of household
filing status.
2. You paid more than half the cost of keeping
up your home for the tax year.
3. Your spouse didn't live in your home during
the last 6 months of the tax year. Your
spouse is considered to live in your home
even if he or she is temporarily absent due
to special circumstances. See Temporary
absences, under Qualifying Person, later.
4. Your home was the main home of your
child, stepchild, or foster child for more
than half the year. (See Home of qualifying
person, under Qualifying Person, later, for
rules applying to a child's birth, death, or
temporary absence during the year.)
5. You must be able to claim an exemption
for the child.
Please view pages 24-25 of IRS publication 17, for more information about this filing status.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p17.pdf
