My accountant says that you can file a joint return with a deceased spouse in Pennsylvania. The surviving spouse has to be listed first, but my accountant says Pennsylvania rarely complains if the spouses are in the wrong order. Turbotax has two bugs. 1. Not allowing the joint return with a deceased spouse. 2. Not allowing you to reverse the order of taxpayer and spouse. I found a work around for Number 1. I brought my Father back to life for an hour by changing his status on the Federal return from dead to alive. Then Turbotax was able to prepare a joint Pennsylvania return. I used a pen to mark up the printed Pennsylvania return, and indicated that my Father was deceased and added a date of death. We will see if this works. You can probably change the order of the spouses by playing with the personal area of the Federal return, but I was too far along to bother. Get rid of one taxpayer then add them back in.
