Filling Jointly

[WFetty]

My wife and I have been married for 13 years and have always filed separately.  Both of our work status for 2020 is retired now and we want to file jointly for 2020.  Trying to enter our information in TurboTax seems to be impossible.  We both filed itemizing for 2019 but it only picks up one of our information.  Any suggestions

Wayne

[Opus 17]

Turbotax doesn't correctly handle the situation of two separate state tax refunds.  If you know the refunds are taxable, just combine them, and tell Turbotax to skip the calculation.  If you aren't sure if they are taxable, you will have to do the calculations separately on your own.  

[bluedeb · Accepted solution]

When you file as Married Filing Separate, you have two separate accounts.  When you change to filing as Married Filing Joint you cannot combine the two accounts.  You would need to choose the account that has the most information, then just go through the joint return to add your spouse's information.

[TD_1]

1st congratulations on your retirement.  I would select the 2019 account with the most data field filled and than edit the personal information selection to include the other spouse information. Make sure you also check married filling jointly (common mistake) .   In addition remove any out dated information data, ie: old addresses of interest account  on prior years filling.