federal itemized deuction form

[billchoate]

we filed married joint federal return.

Arkansas has a lower tax rate for married filing seperatly on the same return.

When I tried to complete my state tax return, it said my spouse did not have any itemized deductions on the federal return so we had to file jointly on the state return and pay more tax.

Question: How do I get my spouse listed on the federal itemized deuction sheet?

thank you  

[ThomasM125 · Accepted solution]

You would have to prepare separate federal returns as married-separate and enter the itemized deductions on your federal return. You would have to allocate the deductions between spouses. You then only file the state returns, as the federal return you file will be the one you prepared as married-joint. So, you would have to prepare three federal returns but only submit one of them.

You may find it easier and less expensive to use the desktop TurboTax as you can prepare all the returns using the same product. You can use the Tax Tools option on your left menu bar while you are working on your return to then bring up Tools, which will have an option to Save your return to your computer so you don't need to start your online return over in the desktop version of TurboTax.

[billchoate]

brilliant,

thanks