Is it legitimate to change to standard deduction when spouse is itemizing?

[teedeecee]

It does change it.

[teedeecee]

Exactly what it did on my return as well.

[MikeDemler]

I'm sorry to hear the TurboTax bug got you. They should refund the charges you incurred  for the audit protection. 

@LindaS5247 can you take care of that?

[ShirlynW]

No, it is not legitimate to change to standard deduction when the spouse is itemizing. IRS rules states that if your are married filing separate both spouses must use the same.

[MikeDemler]

@ShirlynW 

As I said earlier in this thread.. that was a rhetorical question, as you can see in my reply to @LindaS5247 .

Apparently, as you can also see from the post by @teedeecee yesterday, Intuit has yet to fix this bug!

How many users that are married filing separately  had their tax returns illegally altered by TurboTax, so that the spouses' returns use different methods for reporting deductions? 

[joann44]

Intuit isn't "illegally altering" a return - the taxpayer simply isn't properly answering the questions about itemized and standard deductions.  It's up to the taxpayer to tell the software which one to use.   

[MikeDemler]

@joann44 

If you read the entire thread from the beginning, you'd see that what you assert was not the case, and other users confirmed the bug. (I haven't checked the 2023 edition, since the situation that caused this error no longer applies to me).  It was NOT a user error!  I answered the questions correctly, as I've done for the entire 17+-year duration of my marriage, and in the 2022 edition, TurboTax changed my deduction-filing status. 

Hopefully, it's now been fixed.