How To Handle Taxes For A Deceased Person
How do I handle taxes for a deceased person?
The question of how to handle the taxes of a deceased person is going to come up and it happens. Let's say you've been married, or you are married, you're filing joint tax returns and your spouse passes away this past year. How do you handle that? Well, let's say your spouse passes away in 2007. When you file your tax return for 2007, you were married for part of the year so you get to file a joint tax return with that deceased spouse for the first year. The next year, and subsequent years after that, you're back to being a single person. You may be considered a head of household if you have children living at home with you, but you no longer get the benefit of filing with your spouse.