tharp993
Returning Member

Deductions & credits

Hello - I am married and filing jointly, my spouse has income of $40k USD, but I had excluded her income for the purposes of the test. I have no other deductions aside from the FTC. Turbotax had been defaulting to the standard deduction of $25,800. Upon looking further, this seemed to have caused AMT to kick in. If i choose to itemize deductions (making that 25,800 go to zero), then the liability goes to $0. Can I confirm that is what you are doing?