Hi,
I was widowed last year and know that I'm allowed to leave my W4 exemptions based on a married status because of being able to file as a "Qualifying Widow" for the next two tax years. But I have done some tax modelling and with tweaking my savings scenario will do a bit better filing as HH. Is there any penalty for having my W4 say "married" if I opt to file HH. I'm not sure I understand why one has to specify this status on the W4 anyway since either you'll owe or you wont based on your withholdings...but thought I'd see if I'm missing something here.