@jimcrack68 wrote:
We will receive separate letters even though we filed our 2020 return jointly and received only one check per month, made out to both of us?
Yes, you will each get a separate letter.
@jimcrack68 wrote:
I’m not sure how the IRS would even know.
What is it that you're not sure the IRS would know? They know you filed jointly, and they know how much money they sent you. They don't know which children are yours and which are your wife's. They based the payments on the total number of qualifying children on your joint 2020 tax return. I think they will simply split the total amount of advance payments equally. (Don't rely on what I think. Wait until you get the letters.) That's why the results on your tax returns might not be what you want. But you each must enter the amount from the letter, even if it's not the way that you split the payments between you. As I said earlier, you can settle up between you later.
If, as Critter-3 suggested, you file jointly for 2021, you will still enter the amounts from each of your letters separately, but TurboTax will add them together and put the total amount on the tax form.
