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Head of Household: How To Defend Your Filing Status in Tax Court

The IRS changed you from Head of Household to Single and now you owe. Here's why it's usually wrong—and exactly how to prove HoH and win it back.

Liam Williams

Liam Williams

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The IRS changed your filing status. You filed as Head of Household; the notice says you are Single—or Married Filing Separately—and now you owe instead of getting a refund. The change rarely arrives alone. The same letter usually strips your Earned Income Tax Credit, your Child Tax Credit, and the $500 Credit for Other Dependents at the same time, because all of them lean on the same child.

Here is what that switch costs you in plain dollars. For tax year 2025, Head of Household gives you a $23,625 standard deduction; Single gives you $15,750—a $7,875 gap in deductions alone. For 2026 the gap is $8,050 ($24,150 versus $16,100). Then your income gets taxed in narrower Single brackets, and on top of that sits the bundled credit clawback. A dispute that started as "which box did you check" can turn into a five-figure deficiency.

The good news: filing status is provable. It turns on three concrete facts—whether you were unmarried, who lived in your home and for how long, and who paid for the home. This is the substantive merits guide to proving Head of Household after the IRS knocks it down: the rules you have to satisfy, the documents that win, the one rule about Form 8332 that almost everyone gets backward, and how the path runs from the audit letter to US Tax Court.

This article is the close companion to How To Prove Your EITC and Dependent Claims to the IRS. Head of Household, the EITC, and the dependent credits fall together and are restored together, on the same residency, relationship, and cost facts. That article owns the credits; this one owns filing status. Read both if your notice hit more than one.

What Head of Household Is, and Why It Got Knocked Down

Head of Household is the filing status for an unmarried person who runs a household for someone else. It rewards that with a bigger standard deduction and lower tax rates than Single—roughly splitting the difference between Single and Married Filing Jointly. It lives in IRC Section 2(b).

There are exactly three tests, and you have to meet all three:

  1. You were unmarried—or "considered unmarried"—at the end of the year, and not a surviving spouse.
  2. A qualifying person lived in your home as their main home for more than half the year.
  3. You paid more than half the cost of keeping up that home for the year.

That is the whole structure. Everything else is detail about who counts as a qualifying person, what "considered unmarried" means if you are still married, and what counts toward the cost of the home.

The IRS challenges Head of Household for the same reason it challenges the EITC: it is claimed in volume, it is easy to get wrong, and the audits are cheap to run by mail. These disputes almost never involve an agent at your door. They arrive as a CP2000 notice, a correspondence audit (often Letter 566 or a CP75), or eventually a Notice of Deficiency—the 90-day letter. Because filing status travels with the credits, one good proof package can restore the whole stack.

Which Letter Am I Holding?

Before anything else, figure out which notice you have, because only one of them starts a clock you cannot extend.

  • A CP2000, a CP75, or a Letter 566 is a proposed change or a correspondence audit. There is no 90-day Tax Court clock yet. Respond by the deadline printed on the letter—usually about 30 days—with your proof package. This is the cheapest and best place to win. See How To Respond to an IRS Audit.
  • A Notice of Deficiency (often Letter 3219; it will say "Notice of Deficiency" and give a last date to petition the Tax Court) is the 90-day letter. The clock is running, and that deadline is firm.

If you are not sure which one you are holding, look for the words "Notice of Deficiency" and a stated last date to petition. If they are not there, you are almost certainly still at the audit stage—respond on the merits and keep the case out of court.

Rule 1: Unmarried, or "Considered Unmarried"

If you were single, divorced, or legally separated under a decree at year-end, you clear this test. Under IRC Section 7703, marital status is fixed as of the last day of the year, and a person legally separated under a decree of divorce or separate maintenance is treated as not married.

But you do not have to be divorced to file Head of Household. A still-married person who lives apart from their spouse can be "considered unmarried" under Section 7703(b)—the "abandoned spouse" rule. This is the route many separated parents miss, and it is often the one the IRS gets wrong against them.

Here is the four-prong checklist. You are considered unmarried for the year only if all four are true:

  1. You file a separate return. A return filed as Single, Married Filing Separately, or Head of Household all count as "separate" for this purpose.
  2. Your home was, for more than half the year, the main home of your child—and here "child" is narrow. It must be your son, daughter, stepchild, or foster child, as defined in Section 152(f)(1). A grandchild, niece, or nephew does not satisfy the considered-unmarried test, even though they can qualify you for Head of Household by the ordinary unmarried route. You must be able to claim the child as a dependent—but you still meet this prong even if you cannot claim the child only because you released the claim to the other parent on Form 8332.
  3. You paid more than half the cost of keeping up the home for the year.
  4. Your spouse did not live in your home during the last six months of the year.

That last prong is strict. The six months are measured to the day, and a spouse who moves back in—even briefly—inside the last half of the year can blow the test. If you are separated and the dates are close, document exactly when your spouse moved out.

Notice the trade-off built into this route. The ordinary unmarried path (next section) accepts any qualifying child, including a grandchild or niece. The considered-unmarried path is narrower—your own child, stepchild, or foster child only. If a grandparent is raising a grandchild but is still legally married and living apart from a spouse, that distinction matters.

If the IRS instead recharacterized you as Married Filing Separately—which by itself kills the EITC and the family credits—you are not necessarily stuck with that. A married couple can usually still elect to file jointly even after a wrong filing-status return; see what Camara teaches in the cases section below.

Rule 2: A Qualifying Person Who Lived With You

This is the heart of most disputes. Your home had to be, for more than half the year, the principal place of abode (the legal phrase for "main home"—where the person actually lived and slept the most nights) of a qualifying person. There are three ways to satisfy it.

A Qualifying Child

A qualifying child under Section 152(c) is the most common qualifying person. The tests are the same ones the EITC uses—relationship, residency, age, support, and no joint return—and the EITC and dependent claims guide walks them in full. The relationship reaches your child or a descendant (a grandchild), and your sibling or a descendant (a niece or nephew). The residency test is the contested one: the child must have lived with you for more than half the year.

When two people can claim the same child—a mother and a grandmother who shared a roof, or two separated parents—the tie-breaker rules in Section 152(c)(4) decide it: a parent wins over a non-parent, and between two parents the one the child lived with for the longer part of the year wins (and if that is somehow a tie, the higher income). Knowing the tie-breaker tells you whether you were the one entitled to claim the child in the first place.

For Head of Household, the statute adds a crucial phrase. Section 2(b)(1)(A)(i) defines the qualifying child "as defined in section 152(c), determined without regard to section 152(e)." That phrase is doing enormous work, and it sets up the rule everyone gets wrong—covered in its own section below.

A Qualifying Relative

If the person is not a qualifying child—an older child, a sibling, another relative you support—they can still anchor Head of Household as a qualifying relative under Section 152(d), as long as you can actually claim them as a dependent. That means they pass the relationship test, their gross income is under the annual limit, and you provided more than half their support.

The Parent Special Rule

A dependent parent is the one qualifying person who does not have to live with you. Under Section 2(b)(1)(B), you qualify for Head of Household if you pay more than half the cost of keeping up a home that was your dependent parent's main home for the whole year—even if that home is not yours.

Publication 501 says it directly: if you pay more than half the cost of keeping your parent in a rest home or home for the elderly, that counts as paying more than half the cost of keeping up your parent's main home. So an adult child supporting a parent in assisted living can be Head of Household, with the parent never setting foot in the child's house.

The Section 2(b)(3) Trap: An Unrelated Household Member Won't Do

There is a hard limit, and it catches unmarried-partner households constantly. Section 2(b)(3) says you are not Head of Household by reason of a person who is your dependent only because they lived with you all year as a member of your household—the catch-all dependency route in Section 152(d)(2)(H).

In plain terms: your unmarried partner, your partner's child, or an unrelated friend you support can be your dependent, but they cannot make you Head of Household. Publication 501's qualifying-person table confirms it—a friend you support and a friend's child are each "not a qualifying person." If your only candidate for Head of Household is an unrelated member of your household, the status does not apply, no matter how much of their support you paid.

The Rule Everyone Gets Backward: Form 8332 Does Not Move Head of Household

This is the single most valuable thing in this article. If the IRS changed you to Single because you signed a Form 8332, or because the other parent claimed your child, this is your argument.

Form 8332 transfers only three things to the noncustodial parent: the dependency claim, the Child Tax Credit, and the $500 Credit for Other Dependents. It does not—and cannot—transfer Head of Household, the EITC, or the child and dependent care credit. Those stay with the parent the child actually lived with.

The reason is that phrase from Section 2(b)(1)(A)(i): the qualifying child for Head of Household is determined "without regard to section 152(e)"—and Section 152(e) is the entire release mechanism. Because the release is read out of the picture for Head of Household, signing it can never move the status. Publication 501's qualifying-person table footnote says the same thing: if you are the custodial parent, the child is generally your qualifying child for Head of Household filing status even though the child is not a dependent you can claim; and if you are the noncustodial parent, the term "qualifying child" for Head of Household does not include a child who is yours only because of the release.

Two mirror-image examples make it concrete.

You are the custodial parent who signed Form 8332. Your child lived with you 250 nights last year. You signed the form so the other parent could claim the dependency and the Child Tax Credit—and that was correct; those were yours to give. But you keep Head of Household and the EITC. They were never part of the release. If the IRS changed you to Single because you "gave away" the child, that is an error. You defend Head of Household on residency and cost, completely independent of the Form 8332.

You are the noncustodial parent with a valid Form 8332. You get the dependency exemption and the Child Tax Credit—the form does its job. But you cannot claim Head of Household or the EITC for that child, because the child did not live with you for more than half the year. No form can supply a residency fact that is not true. A noncustodial parent who claims Head of Household on top of a valid release is claiming something the release never gave them.

Put both parents in one picture. The child lived with Mom 250 nights and with Dad 115, and Mom signs Form 8332:

  • Dad (noncustodial) gets: the dependency claim, the Child Tax Credit, and the $500 Credit for Other Dependents—the three things the form transfers.
  • Mom (custodial) keeps: Head of Household, the EITC, and the child and dependent care credit—none of which the form can move.

If the IRS makes Mom Single because she "gave the child away" on the form, that is precisely the error this article exists to fix.

The Tax Court drew exactly this line in Shenk v. Commissioner, 140 T.C. 200 (2013). A divorced father, whose children lived with their mother for more than half the year and who had no signed Form 8332, was held not entitled to the dependency exemption or the Child Tax Credit—and the court held he was "not entitled to head-of-household filing status under I.R.C. sec. 2(b)(1)." Head of Household followed residency, not the divorce decree dividing up the exemptions. A noncustodial parent cannot bootstrap the status from a piece of paper.

The $0 Personal Exemption Doesn't Break Head of Household

Here is a worry that trips up readers who look at the law literally. The qualifying-relative and parent routes both require that you be "entitled to a deduction" for that person under Section 151—the personal-exemption deduction. And the personal exemption has been $0 since 2018, a change the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21) made permanent. Read literally, that zero would seem to wipe out Head of Household through a dependent parent or relative.

It does not, and the law is explicit about why. Section 151(d)(5)(B) says the reduction of the exemption amount to zero "shall not be taken into account in determining whether a deduction is allowed or allowable, or whether a taxpayer is entitled to a deduction" under that section. In plain English: ignore the zero when you are deciding whether someone is your dependent.

The IRS confirmed this covers Head of Household by name. Notice 2018-70 stated that the zero reduction will not be taken into account in determining whether a person is a qualifying relative, and listed the affected provisions expressly, including "head of household filing status under § 2(b)." The final regulation, Treas. Reg. § 1.152-2, implements it: the gross-income limit for a qualifying relative is the inflation-adjusted figure (roughly $4,150 and indexed upward, published in Publication 501 each year), not zero.

So if you support a dependent parent or relative, the $0 exemption does not cost you Head of Household. The relative just has to have gross income under the current-year limit in Publication 501, and you have to pay more than half the cost of the home. (The qualifying-child route never touched Section 151 at all—it runs through Section 152(c)—so the $0 exemption never threatened Head of Household through a child.)

Rule 3: You Paid More Than Half the Cost of the Home

This is where more Head of Household cases are lost than on residency, because proving it takes arithmetic, not just testimony. You must show you furnished over half the cost of keeping up the home for the year. That means proving two numbers: what you paid, and what the home cost in total.

Costs that count (from Publication 501): rent, mortgage interest, real estate taxes, home insurance, repairs, utilities, and food eaten in the home.

Costs that do not count: clothing, education, medical treatment, vacations, life insurance, and transportation. The value of your own services—or a household member's—does not count either. Neither does the rental value of a home you own; this is a cash-out-of-pocket test.

The Public-Assistance Nuance

If government payments are in the picture, the allocation is precise, and it cuts both ways. Per Publication 501:

  • TANF and similar payments you receive and spend on the household count as support you provided. If you got Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and used it to keep up the home, that money is treated as your contribution, not the government's.
  • But money received in the child's or qualifying person's own name counts as paid by them, not you. The classic example is a child's Social Security survivor benefits. If those benefits go into keeping up the home, that share is the child's contribution—it does not help you clear the 50% line.

A reader near the halfway point has to do this allocation carefully. Run the numbers before you assert Head of Household: if the child's own Social Security covers a large slice of the household and your out-of-pocket share dips below half, the status does not hold.

Here is the arithmetic in action. Say the home cost $24,000 to keep up for the year—rent $14,400, utilities $3,600, and food eaten at home $6,000. You paid $13,000 of that out of pocket, including $3,000 of TANF you received and spent on the household, which counts as yours. Your $13,000 of $24,000 is 54%—you clear the test. Now change one fact: if the child's $4,000 in Social Security survivor benefits went toward the home and dropped your own out-of-pocket share to $11,000 of $24,000, you are at 46%, and the status fails. The total cost is the denominator, your share is the numerator, and the fraction has to clear one-half.

Prove the Total, Not Just Your Share

The mistake that sinks the cost test is proving only what you paid. "I paid the rent and most of the bills" is not enough, because the court cannot compute a percentage without the denominator. You have to put in evidence of the total household cost so the more-than-half math is visible. Receipts and statements for your own payments, plus a credible figure for everything the household cost that year—that is what wins this element.

Proving It: Walk Form 886-H-HOH

The IRS publishes a checklist that tells you exactly what to send: Form 886-H-HOH, "Supporting Documents to Prove Head of Household Filing Status." It is the Head of Household analog to Form 886-H-EIC, and it is organized around the same three tests. Build your package to its three sections, line by line.

Marriage Test. If you are married and claiming the considered-unmarried route, send documents showing your spouse did not live with you during the last six months of the year—a lease or rent records in one name, utility bills, or a letter from clergy or a social-service agency. This is what proves prong four of the abandoned-spouse checklist.

Qualifying Person Test (residency). Prove the qualifying person lived in your home for more than half the year. The documents are the same residency proofs that win an EITC case:

  • School records showing the child's name, your address, and dates
  • Medical or immunization records with the address and dates
  • Childcare provider records
  • Social-service, placement-agency, or court records
  • Dated letters on official letterhead from a school, health-care provider, social-service agency, place of worship, or landlord—each showing the qualifying person's name, your shared address, and a date range covering more than half the year

Cost of Keeping Up a Home Test. The form's own list: rent receipts, utility bills, grocery receipts, property-tax bills, mortgage interest statement, upkeep and repair bills, property-insurance statement, and other household bills. Gather enough to show both your payments and the total cost.

The Relative-Letter Trap

Watch one detail that fails packages quietly. Form 886-H-HOH warns that if you send a letter from a relative who provides your daycare, you must send at least one additional letter. The EITC form is even stricter—it cannot accept documents signed by someone related to you at all. Independent, third-party documents carry the proof. A letter from your sister vouching for where the child lived is the kind of thing that gets a package rejected.

Match the Year, Translate the Documents

Two more traps from the forms: every document has to be for the tax year in dispute—a school letter for this year does not prove residency for the year under audit—and any non-English document needs a certified translation. Address the checklist exactly, for the right year, with independent paper.

Verify the IRS's Numbers Before You Argue

Before you build the package, find out precisely what the IRS changed and why. Two documents tell you.

Form 4549, the examination report, lays out every adjustment line by line: the filing-status change, the disallowed EITC, the disallowed Child Tax Credit, the recomputed tax, and any penalty. Read it closely—sometimes the IRS's recomputation contains its own errors, and you can only catch them if you check the math.

Your transcripts show what the IRS's records actually say. Pull your account transcript (the assessments, the changes, the dates) and your wage-and-income transcript (the income documents filed under your number). Both are taxpayer-accessible—you can get them yourself through IRS.gov's Get Transcript tool, no practitioner required. Other transcripts that diagnose timing and penalties are practitioner-only, which is one reason a Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic is worth involving early. See How To Get and Read Your IRS Transcripts for the walkthrough.

The Burden Is on You

In Tax Court the IRS's determination is presumed correct, and filing status—like a deduction or a credit—is yours to prove. Tax Court Rule 142(a) puts "the burden of proof upon the petitioner."

Section 7491 can shift that burden to the IRS on a factual issue, but only if you first produce credible evidence and you substantiated your items and cooperated during the audit. The reader who ignored the correspondence-exam letter and sent nothing forfeits the shift. So plan on the burden being yours—and win it the way these cases are won, with documents.

The encouraging reality: documentary proof is exactly what carries these cases, and IRS Counsel routinely concedes once clean residency and cost proof appears. The case is usually won on paper, not on argument.

The Full Exposure: What's Really at Stake

Size the whole dispute before you decide how hard to fight it. The Head of Household line is rarely the only thing moving.

Lost standard deduction. For 2025, dropping from Head of Household to Single costs you $7,875 in deductions ($23,625 versus $15,750). For 2026, it costs $8,050 ($24,150 versus $16,100). These figures adjust every year—confirm the current-year amounts in Publication 501 or the IRS's annual revenue procedure.

Bracket shift. Single brackets are narrower than Head of Household brackets, so the same income gets taxed at higher rates. That is a second, separate cost on top of the lost deduction.

The bundled credit clawback. The same audit usually strips the EITC, the Child Tax Credit and refundable Additional Child Tax Credit, and the $500 Credit for Other Dependents. This is what makes a "filing status" deficiency balloon. The flip side is the opportunity: one residency-and-cost proof package can restore all of it at once.

The accuracy-related penalty. Section 6662 adds a penalty of 20% of the extra tax—the underpayment—not 20% of your income. People misread this and panic; the penalty is a fifth of the additional tax, not a fifth of what you earned. You fight it with reasonable cause and good faith. See How To Fight the IRS Accuracy Penalty.

Interest. Interest runs on the deficiency and the penalty from the original due date of the return until you pay, at the IRS underpayment rate—which has recently been around 7–8%, compounded daily.

A Worked Example

Suppose your Head of Household was knocked to Single for 2025, and the same notice stripped a $4,000 EITC and a $2,000 Child Tax Credit for your child. The lost $7,875 deduction plus the bracket shift adds roughly $1,500 of tax. Add back the $4,000 EITC and $2,000 in credits, and the deficiency is about $7,500. A 20% accuracy penalty—charged on the portion of the underpayment the IRS attributes to negligence or a substantial understatement, not automatically on the whole bill—can add up to about $1,500 more. Then interest runs on both from the return's original due date: at roughly 7–8%, a $9,000 balance left outstanding through a 6–18 month case adds several hundred dollars on top. A "wrong box" dispute is now a $9,000-plus bill—and a single clean proof package can erase it.

Keep the EITC Ban Separate—There Is No Head of Household Ban

One precision point that matters. If your EITC was denied, Section 32(k) can impose a 2-year ban (for reckless or intentional disregard) or a 10-year ban (for fraud) on claiming the EITC again, and you may need Form 8862 to recertify. Those consequences attach to the EITC piece only.

There is no equivalent ban on Head of Household. You do not lose the status for future years because the IRS disallowed it once, and there is no recertification form for it. Do not let the EITC ban language—which can be frightening—bleed over into your filing status. They are different rules.

If the IRS Is Actually Right

Run the three tests honestly first. If your spouse moved back in during the last six months, if the other parent had the child more nights, or if the child's own benefits covered most of the home, you may not have qualified—and the audit window is not the place to fight a point you will lose. Put your energy where it can still help:

  • Fight the penalty, not the tax. Even when the deficiency itself is correct, the accuracy penalty can often be removed for reasonable cause and good faith. An honest misreading of the considered-unmarried or residency rules is a real argument.
  • Deal with what you owe. If you cannot pay, you have options: an installment agreement, currently not collectible status if paying would leave you unable to cover basic living costs, or an offer in compromise. Given the income levels in most of these disputes, currently not collectible status is often the right fit—and an LITC can help you set it up.

What the Cases Teach

Three reported Tax Court decisions frame how these disputes go.

Shenk v. Commissioner, 140 T.C. 200 (2013) — Residency controls Head of Household, full stop. A noncustodial father with no Form 8332 lost the dependency exemption, the Child Tax Credit, and Head of Household status, because the children lived with their mother for more than half the year. The lesson: you cannot buy Head of Household with a divorce decree or a released exemption; the status follows the home the child actually lived in.

Camara v. Commissioner, 149 T.C. No. 13 (2017) — A married couple, representing themselves, filed a return erroneously claiming Single status. The IRS treated them as Married Filing Separately, which alone kills the EITC and the family credits. The Tax Court held that the originally filed return claiming the wrong status "did not constitute a 'separate return'" that would bar them from later electing to file jointly—so the couple could file a joint return and recover the benefits available to joint filers. The lesson: if you are married and the IRS recharacterized you as Married Filing Separately, you are not necessarily trapped—a wrong filing-status election is not always a binding "separate return." (A companion memorandum decision the same year applied the same reasoning to a return erroneously filed as Head of Household.)

Rowe v. Commissioner, 128 T.C. 13 (2007) — A self-represented taxpayer lived with her two children until a mid-year arrest, then was jailed for the rest of the year. The court treated the jail stay as a temporary absence and held it did not break the children's residency with her, analyzing the question under the same Section 2(b) Head of Household temporary-absence regulations. To be precise, the credit actually decided was the EITC under Section 32; the court borrowed the Head of Household residency framework as the analogous standard. The lesson for Head of Household: temporary absences—school, illness, military service, time in custody pending disposition—count as time the qualifying person lived at home, so a gap mid-year is not automatically fatal to the more-than-half-the-year test.

Beyond these, the everyday failure patterns are well documented in Publication 501 and the burden-of-proof rules, not in citable precedent: taxpayers lose Head of Household routinely for failing to prove the total cost of the home (only their own share), and for claiming a child who actually lived with the other parent more than half the year. Both are documentary failures, not legal ones—which is exactly why a clean proof package so often turns them around.

The Path: From Notice to Tax Court

Here is how the dispute moves and where it usually ends:

  1. Respond to the audit or CP2000. Send the Form 886-H-HOH package—marriage, residency, and cost proof—to the exact address or fax on your notice, by the deadline printed there (often about 30 days). Keep a complete copy and proof of delivery. Most disputes that get resolved are resolved here, before any court case. See How To Respond to a CP2000 Notice.

  2. Notice of Deficiency. If it is not resolved, the IRS issues the 90-day letter. Under Section 6213, you have 90 days from the date on the notice (150 days if it is addressed outside the US) to file a petition in US Tax Court. This deadline cannot be extended, and filing in time stops assessment and collection while the case is pending. See How To File Your Tax Court Petition.

  3. Almost always a small case. Head of Household deficiencies are nearly always under the $50,000 small-case threshold, so you can elect the simplified ("S case") procedure—informal, plain-English, no rigid rules of evidence. The trade-off is that an S-case decision is final and sets no precedent. See Small Case or Regular Case: Which Should You Choose.

  4. Filing fee and waiver. The fee is $60, and a waiver is available if you cannot afford it. Given the income levels in most Head of Household disputes, many petitioners qualify.

  5. Most cases settle. Most (76%) of Tax Court cases close by settlement, and more than 99% resolve without a trial. Producing the documentary proof to IRS Counsel usually produces a stipulated decision restoring the status and the credits. Cases typically take 6-18 months to resolve.

  6. If the 90 days lapsed: audit reconsideration. If the petition window passed and the deficiency was assessed, the fallback is audit reconsideration—asking the IRS to reopen the assessment with the documents you never sent. It is discretionary, not a right, but it works in many Head of Household cases because the issue is purely documentary.

Get Help: You Almost Certainly Qualify for a Free Clinic

This is one of the strongest free-help situations on this site. A Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic handles exactly these disputes—filing-status and EITC audits, correspondence-exam representation, and Tax Court small cases—for free or a nominal fee.

The eligibility math lines up. The income in most Head of Household disputes sits well within LITC limits (250% of the poverty line), and the amount in dispute is well under the LITC dispute cap of $50,000. Contact a clinic at two moments: the day you receive the audit letter or CP2000, and immediately if a Notice of Deficiency arrives. The earlier a clinic is involved, the more often the dispute ends at the audit stage.

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