Don’t include your wife’s W-2 on your income tax return or your W-2 on her return. What you will include is a community property adjustment to equalize the income and withholding on both returns.
This is done manually.
The IRS will not get confused. That’s what Form 8958 is for. This form shows IRS your total joint income and how you divided it among the two returns so they can match both returns to make sure nothing was missing.
Form 8958 does not affect the tax calculation on your Form 1040. It’s informational.
With a community property adjustment, you are basically breaking down your income twice — once on Form 1040 and once on Form 8958.
There is an excellent discussion on this at How do I figure what the community property income adjustment is? We are married filing separately, ....
Also see Married Filing Separately in community property states.
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