To follow-up on the comment from @VanessaA, at least on the portion of the capital gain it would appear that filing MFJ is your better option because you won't begin to pay any long-term capital gains tax until such gains are over $80,800. However, to know for certain whether MFJ is the better option versus MFS, it is best to prepare both types of returns and then compare the respective tax outcomes.
If you choose the latter option, you may not need to prepare the entire MFS return, but perhaps just enough to get a good idea of the tax outcome.
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