Filing married but "separately" that is. And yes, you pay more taxes filing that way. Not a huge amount - but it's still more.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > 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:310058 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
