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Here's a brief overview of the procedure, see the sections below for detailed steps:
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Intuit can't program something to do that for us? This is horribly complicated.
Yes, you are correct it is complicated and TurboTax can't know which income belongs to which spouse in which state. Couple that with each state has its own rules for allowing a different filing status from the federal filing status. Plus all the states begin with the Federal Adjusted Gross Income to calculate their state tax so the federal has to be done for each state.
To simplify you might consider for the future changing resident states to be the same for both of you.
See your finance/legal office for details on how to make that change.
It could be even more simple if you both change to a state that does not have a state income tax. If you are stationed in one of those states (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming) it's fairly easy to change your residence to that state.
So VA requires your federal tax form to be filed with it, so File the MFJ Federal return with the MFS State return?
BTW in the response to the other Kyle, it said that Turbo Tax doesn't know who to attribute income to, yet it does ask ask the question "Who's income is this? Spouse 1 or Spouse 2" for some forms of income. It is just inconsistent so it doesn't gather the total picture.
VA does not require/need a copy of your federal return. See page 7 of the VA instructions for "Assembling your return" for mailing.
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