I was legally married for all of 2023. We got our divorce decree in May of 2024.
he filed married/jointly in April this year. And it had slipped my mind as we had to do it virtually this year and physically separated as we are both overseas in two different countries. He filed as head of household on his account (turbo tax) and I did not file as we already did. However, I made a mistake as I saw I got an email from the turbo tax application saying oct 31 was the last day to file taxes and mine were not completed. I was confused, as I couldn’t remembered in that moment if I did my taxes or not. So I had panicked as I said I am overseas and 16 hours ahead from the states. So I began to file out my own taxes.
Once I finished filling out everything. I see I had a tax due amount. Turbo tax wouldn’t let me file without paying the tax due amount first. So I proceeded to pay it. Then waited to see if my file would get approved. It ended up getting rejected. The error code I received was “E-file rejection IND-508-01 means that the first person listed on the return (the primary taxpayer) was listed as the spouse, or was used to claim the spouse exemption on another, previously filed tax return.”
in that moment, I felt absolutely silly. Because I then remembered I had already filed my taxes. I couldn’t believe that the thought didn’t cross my mind. I’ve had a lot of changes in my own life this year and this was by far the most crazy thing I have done.
im now in the situation where I have filed again when I did not need to and it got rejected. I will leave it as is. But I also paid a tax due amount that I wasn’t supposed to and I am wanting to figure out how to get that money back. It was $650 a little chunk of change. I hope this brings more clarity.
I tried to describe it as best as I could. Turbo tax initially gave me a limit of characters to type with and it was difficult to explain with a few sentences.
