Community College Rejected Tax Transcripts?

twoinanddone
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:23:23 +0000

My sister and her (now) husband each claimed one child and HOH, but the difference was that they actually owned two houses. BIL always used one house, had his car registered there, voted from there, etc. and paid one of the kids’ tuition. My sister claimed one kid, her house, etc. They’ve never commingled money, even after being married for 18+ years. Now that they are filing FAFSA and such, having the two households hurts them because it is as if BIL house is a vacation house, and it really is where he lives (he works from there M-F, and they go to one house or the other on weekends because she works near the other house). Just how it is, beneficial in one way, a penalty in another.

It’s possible to have two HOH in one physical house if they are running a separate households. If it is two people commingling all the assets, using one checking account, sharing all expenses, then I don’t think they’ll meet the definition of HOH. I have two friends who are sisters, and they share a house with their mother. It really is a case of 3 separate families in one household and the two sisters are HOH (each has kids) and mother is a single filer.

However, I don’t think the school should be giving tax advice, The school can say the applicant is not qualified for FA and why, but I don’t think it should give advice to refile if the parents and their tax adviser are okay with the returns.