Filed jointly vs separately for USA taxes?

mrkwkkrn · Post by **mrkwkkrn** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:43 pm

Here's a question for you: My wife and I are both living in the USA, but are both Canadian, and she is an American citizen, and I am a permanent resident. This results in some very complicated tax situations. FYI my income was $14K CDN(EI income), and $10K USD, and my wifes was $36K.

I was just about to submit our taxed (filing jointly), when I thought what if I file separately? It dropped our taxes owed from $2000 to basically 0!

My question is are there any major implications to doing this? Can we switch back to filing jointly next year?

FYI I am also planning on filing section 217 in Canada (for my self), and I did include that income on my US return, but did not claim a foreign tax credit.

Thanks in advance!

nelsona · Post by **nelsona** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:45 pm

Since you should be using software, it will decide if you should file jointly or not.

if you are not using software, you are probably wrong, because you claimed your situation is complicated.

mrkwkkrn · Post by **mrkwkkrn** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:50 pm

I am using Turbotax, so I just changed the option and saw it change!

nelsona · Post by **nelsona** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:53 pm

they should have suggested it.

mrkwkkrn · Post by **mrkwkkrn** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:54 pm

Maybe I just didn't get that far.

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