I am not a tax professional of course, but having gone thru this recently with someone I know, you have to be married for more than 6 months of the calendar year to file as married ... BUT .. the caveat is you would have to file as married, filing single... unless yoou are friends with your EX and you can file jointly. Then the refund would of course have to be figured out between the two of you etc. Another whole host of possible issues.
Best thing really is to ask an accountant. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Greg Morphis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a question for all of you tax whizzes out there. > I got divorced late July. With everything going on I forgot to change > my marital status on my w-2 from married to single. > I just changed it to single for this paycheck and now my paycheck is > almost 150 less. Since I was married for more than half of last year > can I file married on this year's tax return? or how hosed am I for > not changing that status to single? I'm filing 0 dependents, not even > including myself. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:310057 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
