@Gladestone66 It sounds like you made a big error when you filed. If you thought you were filing a joint tax return, you did it wrong. You were supposed to enter all of your own income and all of your husband's income on the same tax return. There should not have been two tax returns. Only ONE. So you messed up. TurboTax would have no way to know that you were making that mistake since it is possible to file a joint return even if one of the spouses had no income.
The way to fix it is to amend your own return and add your husband's income to the return that only had your own income on it. And PLEASE--as advised earlier-- look at the filing status you used when you filed your tax return. See if the box is checked for "Married Filing Jointly". It is up at the top of your Form 1040. If you did not set it up as a joint return:
Go to My Info and when you come to the question that asks if you were married--say YES. The next question will ask if you want to file together with your spouse. Say YES. Then you will be working on a joint return. You will be prompted to add your husband's personal information including his Social Security number. When you get all of that taken care of, go to the income section.
If your husband has a W-2, go to Federal>Wages & Income, and click to add a W-2. The screen will show both of your names. Click your husband's name and add his W-2. If he has more than one W-2, click Add W-2 and enter all of his W-2's under his name. If he had any other sort of income you have to enter that too--always under his name--but all on the same tax return form. If you need help finding an income section we can help.
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