Divorce and Taxes?

Question

My soon to be X and I have been living in our own homes since June 1, 2006. We have chose to file our own taxes. Married filing seperate. I want to know if I should file prior to our divorce being final on March 26, 2007 or wait and file after our final divorce court hearing. At this point I believe I owe like 1000.00 (guess something to do with part time jobs, I only made 28,000) and he has told me yet but he will get a refund (he made 32,000). Im confused, I can't afford to go thru H & R block or other companies so like in years past I filed on Turbo Tax and Wi IRS pages for free. I also live in Madison, WI and we have no children if this helps. We also claimed 0 and married. Can I every claim my mom even if she's getting social secuirty widows penision, she makes about 11,000 a year. Hope anyone can help me. I really don't want to talk to the x if I have to. Also when can I change my W2 stating Single and 0.

Answer 1

File as married filing separately. Even if you wait until after your divorce is final, you'd do it that way, since the date that matters is your status as of the end of 2006. So it doesn't matter when you file.

Yes, it's probably the part time jobs that made you end up owing. Each job takes out taxes like that job will be your only income, so not enough gets deducted by the time you add them all together.

You'd probably have a hard time proving that you paid more than half of your mom's support if she has that much income, so you probably can't claim her.

Go ahead and change your W-4 now, so you don't end up owing next year.

Answer 2

File as Married Separate until the divorce is final. AFTER you are divorced, then you can change your status. I doubt it matters when you file your return but I don't know you family court laws. If you ex is getting a refund it is probably because he withheld more.

Use Turbo Tax - NEVER use H&R Block becasue they don't train their preparers properly.

Don't know about your mom due to her pension income - check the IRS website

You can be "married" and indicate Single on your W-4. They just take out more taxes that way. It the actual return where it makes a difference

Good luck to you

Answer 3

you may relatively bypass and get regardless of suggestion you choose from a expert approximately this. i became into divorced in 2004, yet i became into in basic terms a housewife on the time, yet unknown to me my husband had had his income tax from the previous 365 days deferred for some reason, so as that once our divorce became into settled, I had to pay a million/2 of the tax that he hadn't paid for that previous 365 days.