My wife and I filed a joint return on time back in April 2022. A family member of mine paid an accountant to do his taxes. He was told to file "married filing separately". His return was significantly higher by doing this. So a friend of ours tried this as well with his accountant. He found the same thing to be true. This return was also much larger by filing "married filing separately".
So I would like to, if possible, amend my joint return into 2 separate returns. I stumbled on one post on this site that said you can't do this once a joint return is accepted. IS THIS TRUE? So I'm not really able to amend my return inside the 3 year window?
I was hoping that I could log into the software and change a few settings and it would quickly change it over for me to show me what filing the other way would do, but that doesn't appear to be the case. I called Turbo Tax and I was told that I would need to file 2 separate returns. I wasn't told that I couldn't do it because the IRS won't accept it though.
Please help.
