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My husband and I got married September 2023 and were living separately in CA/CO until a couple weeks ago. He worked in CO all of 2023 and I worked in CA the whole year. We're trying to file our state taxes for our respective states but are confused about the process. The software allows us to have two states selected in…
When I look at this tax bracket, it seems that if we filed separately, my wife would be in the 22% bracket and I would be in the 24% bracket… However, if we filed together, it looks like we would fall in the 24% bracket for all of our taxes. For this reason, does it make more sense for us to file separately? I've read most…
Hi there, My wife and I are newly married and going through the tricky situation of doing taxes. We had originally planned to file separately for ease before I found out that my (maxed out) Roth IRA contributions for the last year wouldn’t be allowed if we did (which is wild to me). We then tried putting in our information…
I'm not sure if my wife and I should file separately or not. I've been doing some research but it's tough to figure out. Me: no student debt, about 80k income Her: student debt (going through PSFL), about 60k income Last year we filed jointly (didn't realize her loans would be based off both of our incomes). I believe it…
Hi, I am self-employed and have been unmarried for most of 2023. (I got married on Dec 9th, 2023.) Do I have to file jointly with my new husband when filing taxes for 2023?
I have always filed as a single person, but I recently got married. Do my husband and I need to start filing married jointly? We both have similar salaries and live in the same household. Which one of us files as head of household?
My filing status in my employer's HR system was incorrectly set as Single for most of this year (until the end of October). I reached out to my employer and went through the process of changing my filing status to Married Filing Jointly, so now my take-home pay is significantly greater each paycheck. However, when I asked…
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