When filing separately. I have 17k in itemized deductions, but I took the standard since changing to itemized made no difference. I assume since mortgage interest and other stuff is capped? So I left it as standard since my wife is filing with standard.
None of it makes sense to me since. My tax payment is $500. Her's is $4,600. That is $5,100 fed taxes. Filing jointly, it comes to $6,300. What makes a difference is that separately, I get $1,000 back in state taxes.. hence, separately, we save 2k.
Splitting our taxes is actually easy since the only joint item is the state tax refund from last year. She has a house in her own name that she rents. Our primary house is in my name.
