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Single
Widow(er) How to file
Your filing status is Your filing status may be single if you On Form 1040 or 1040-SR, show
single if you are were widowed before January 1, 2020, your filing status as single by
considered unmarried and didn't remarry before the end of checking the “Single” box on the
and you don’t qualify 2020. You may, however, be able to use Filing Status line at the top of the
for another filing status. another filing status that will give you a form. Use the Single column of
To determine your lower tax. See Head of Household and the Tax Table, or Section A of the
marital status, see Qualifying Widow(er), later, to see if Tax Computation Worksheet, to
Marital Status, earlier. you qualify. figure your tax.
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