 Single and married filing jointly if you if you or your spouse if you are married and filing a joint return Can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's return check the appropriate box and the standard deduction section If you were a dual status alien check the spouse itemizes on a separate return or were a dual status alien Box so these are a couple checkboxes up top if you can be claimed by a dependent if Someone else can claim you and then we've got this dual status alien, which is again kind of more of an unusual situation So if you were a dual status alien and you file a joint return with your spouse Who was a US citizen or resident alien at the end of? 2022 and you and your spouse agree to be taxed on your combined worldwide income Don't check the box. So we've got the age blindness So if you or your spouse if you are married and filing a joint return, we're born before January 2nd 1958 or we're blind at the end of 2022 check the appropriate boxes on the line labeled age Blindness so the reason that's here with the standard deduction is because the standard deduction will be dependent upon The filing status single married filing joint head of household qualified widow widower And then again, you could have an adjustment to those standard deductions amounts based on An age or blindness which could increase those amounts as well. So remember from filing status these perspectives I would usually think of The people that are married or the people that are unmarried if you're unmarried you can either file single Or head of household depend whether and single would be the worst So you try to file head of household if you can but you would need a dependent In order to do so and the standard deductions will be lowest for single a little bit higher for head of household You would think the standard deduction would be doubled for married filing joint Which it is and then married filing separate You would think it would kind of bounce back to the single area But remember married filing separate is not exactly the same as a single So just be careful with that So don't check any boxes for your spouse if your filing status is head of household So death of spouse in 2022 so what if a spouse dies in 2022 the current tax year if your spouse was born before January 2nd 1958 but died in 2022 before reaching age 65 Don't check the box that says spouse was born before January 2nd 1958 so we've got these kind of unusual situations Where we have a death and then this cut-off situation a person is considered to reach age 65 on the day before the person's 65th birthday Example your spouse was born on February 14th 1957 and died on February 13th 2022 your spouse is considered age 65 at the time of death check the appropriate box for your spouse However, if your spouse died on February 12th 2022 your spouse isn't considered age 65 Don't check the box. So death of taxpayer in 2022 if you are preparing a return for someone who died in 2022 you can see publication 501 before completing the standard deduction information blindness plus if you weren't totally blind as of December 31st 2022 you must get a statement certified by your eye doctor Ophthalmologist or opt to op Thomas Trist So in other words if you have the standard deduction and then you're trying to up the standard deduction because you're claiming That you're blind then obviously if you're not fully blind then there could become a question Are you legally blind or are you blind and enough in terms of? Whatever the rate is for Claiming the deduction, which means you've got to get Certification here from someone for that so you can't you can't see better than 2200 and your better eye with glasses or contact lenses or your field of vision is 20 degrees or less So if your eye condition isn't likely to improve beyond the conditions listed above You can get a statement certified by your eye doctor Ophthalmologist or optometrist to this effect instead. So if you must keep the statement for your record, so obviously You're not gonna attach the statement typically to your tax return But if the iris came back within an audit and said hey We need documentation because you said you were blind here and whatnot Then you'd have to be able to provide that like with any other kind of documentation in that event the event of an audit So you can download or view online tax forms and publications in a variety of formats including text-only braille ready files Browser-friendly HTML. So then of course the iris is trying to get their documentation in a format to accommodate Different individuals with different needs including blind Individuals or people with visually impairments So if you receive a notice or letter, but you would prefer to have a braille or large print You can use form nine thousand Alternative media preference to request notices in an alternative format so you can get your notices in another format in that case