Single Tax Filing Status
Single You use Single filing status if on last day of calender year, you were unmarried or separated from your spouse either by divorce or separate maintenance decree.
Married Filing Joint If you were married on the last day of the calender year, you can file a joint return with your spouse. Both spouses income must be added together.
Married Filing Separate The Married Filing Separate filing status can be used by married couples who choose to file separate tax returns. You can use this filing status in your state tax return even if you filed a Joint federal tax return.
Head of Household The head of household filing status is for taxpayers who are either unmarried and not an RDP or meet the requirements to be considered unmarried or considered not in a registered domestic partnership and maintain a home for a relative who lived with them for more than half the year.
Qualifying widow(er) You file your tax return with Qualifying Widow(er) status, if your spouse died during the tax year and and you are left with a dependent child. You can't claim it, if you remarry before end of tax year.