Sorry that's still not answering my question. I understand that we have to do "married filing separately" for both federal and state taxes in this situation. My question is regarding whether I can claim the standard deduction for my state taxes in MN if my husband is doing itemized deductions for his state taxes in NY. It seems that for the state taxes we would only have to do the same (ie itemized v standard) if we were both filing state taxes in the same state
