@xmasbaby0 Be careful about that general statement:
@xmasbaby0 wrote:
Please explain "filing married filing separately on the same form." That is not possible. If you are filing as married filing separately you have to prepare two federal returns--one for each of you. You cannot file on the same Form 1040. You need to clear out everything for one of you on that form--or maybe
just start over.
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That's too generic, and apparently does not apply to MT.
Iowa also lets people file MFJ Federal and then MFS on the same State form, with two separate columns for each of the spouses on the state form. At least for Iowa, the TTX software handles it ....though I haven't worked with IA software since 2018. There "might" be a few other states that allow it too......but I have no idea how the TTX software handles MT or any other states that "might" allow the same option. (Nope, I don't know or have MT, but looking at the MT Form 2, there are two columns on the same standard form, where each spouse uses one column when filing this way).
I suspect, but can't know, that their Medical expenses would have to be divided up somehow during the MT interview...but software varies so widely, I can't know for sure.
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