Just got married on 1/7/17. Already went to Social Security and Secretary of State (driver's license) and changed my last name. 2016 records have maiden name- what to do?

[tmkopinsk]

Under personal info which name do I use?

[SweetieJean · Accepted solution]

Your married name. But you cannot file as married for 2016, since you were still single on 12/31/2016.

[tmkopinsk]

Thank you!

[Critter]

The name mismatch on your tax forms is not an issue ... what is an issue is the time it will take for the IRS to get the word from SS of the name change ... a process that can take up to 8 weeks ( you should have filed your return BEFORE you started changing everything).  You will have to use your new name even though you will not be filing a joint 2016 tax return so expect a delay in getting the return accepted.  You can try to efile once a week until the new name is accepted  OR  you can mail in the return (no guarantee that it will be accepted with the mismatch).