I did my taxes this year for my wife and I, married filing joint, for the fourth year in a row we owed a large amount. Even after I adjusted to have extra withholding taken out. So, as an experiment, I did my taxes as single, and my wife as single, giving her the deduction for the mortgage, and we each have our own student loans that we pay, the total of my refund and what she would owe, is half of the amount if we file together. Am I missing something in the way I am using Turbo Tax? I tried married filing separate, but that made things worse, unless I did something wrong there.
