If you are the spouse you can sign the tax return. Here is a description of who can sign a deceased person's tax return.
- Across the top of the return - above the area where you enter your address, write "Deceased," the person's name, and the date of death.
- You will have to mail the return to be able to do this.
- If you're a surviving spouse filing a joint return and there's no appointed personal representative, you should sign the return and write in the signature area "Filing as surviving spouse."
- If there's an appointed personal representative, he or she must sign the return. If it's a joint return, the surviving spouse must also sign it
- If there's no appointed personal representative and there's no surviving spouse, the person in charge of the decedent's property must file and sign the return as "personal representative."
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