Found out spouse had income last year-$800. Already filed taxes. Did do a Injured Spouse Allocation form8379 but no Innocent spouse form was included. What should I do?

[Opus 17]

Please explain your situation more.  And, "injured spouse" and "innocent spouse" are different things.  We can't really help without more details.

[amokoelsch]

I filed my taxes already without know he had an income of $800 of last year. Not sure if its worth claiming or not since its not a lot of money. We did a joint return. He has child support. I did an injured spouse form so I can keep my refund. Tubo tax did not submit my innocent spouse form that I filled out with my taxes. Not sure if I should amend my taxes or not. Can I still submit an innocent spouse form?

[Opus 17]

First, you keep mixing up injured and innocent spouse.

Form 8379 Injured spouse allocation is used only when you file a joint return and your goal is to protect your share of a refund from past debts of a spouse.

Form 8857 Innocent spouse relief is used only after you are divorced, and you are being held responsible for taxes owed, or fraud, that occurred on joint return during the marriage, and you want to argue that you should not be jointly responsible -- for example, if you claim your spouse committed fraud in secret and you didn't know about it.

Second, you must report all your joint income, even if the amount is small.

If you already filed, wait until your tax return is processed and your refund is paid, whether or not you included the injured spouse form.  (If the entire refund is held for your spouse's debts, it will still show as paid, just not to you.)

Then, file an amended return to add your spouse's missing income.  If your first claimed refund was offset, you can add the injured spouse form at that time.

2018 amending software won't be available until sometime in March.

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