Married filing jointly and married filing separately will generally make little difference in your total tax bill if you are using the standard deduction. Splitting your filing may give you a few dollars more or less. Or one of you may get a refund and the other will owe, but the combination will be the same as if you filed together.
In some cases, married filing separately will help, generally, if there is a big difference in income between the two spouses. For example, if you had large medical bills that were less than 7.5% of your total income, filing separately may allow you to claim medical expenses that you would not be able to with a joint filing.
If you file separately, you both must use either the standard or itemized deductions. Additionally, you may lose some credits.
You can create two new separate accounts in TurboTax Online for free to see if it works out better. Don’t change your current account.
If you do better filing separately, file those two returns instead. Otherwise, you can clear your data.
How do I clear and start over in TurboTax Online?
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