Comments on: How to File Taxes if Married Filing Separately

on 5/12/2008 Recently my husband informed me that he filed as a widow on his tax returns. How can he be allowed to do this? His first wife is dead. I am his second wife I am very much alive. We live in different states and have been separated since 1986

on 2/13/2008 Where do I read the responses to these posts?

on 1/28/2008 I am 18 and my boyfriend and i have been together for 3 years and want to get married, however, to our families we are too young. We have been considering a secret civil marriage that we would keep quite until we decide it is time in a year or two to announce our engagement and then get married within our church. However, our worry is that tax filiing will complicate our idea. Since we would be secretly wed, our parents are still planning on claiming us through college since we'll both be on our parents medical insurance etc. Is our secreitive civil marriage pretty much impossible since our families would continue to claim us and we would share in their work benefits and not eachothers?? Is this at all possible????????

on 1/28/2008 I am married and we both want to file single. Can we do that?

on 12/28/2007 My hubby and I are married for 2 years and I sell on EBay. I think it is better for us to file seperately, because when we filled jointly last year, the government took 1/2 of his return because of something I did over 20 years ago with school and a loan.

Is it better for us to file seperately? Thanks
Sandra

on 1/9/2008 I am a stay at home wife. I just married in May of 2007. I don't work and my husband is a business owner. I don't know what his real net income is. It's something he won't talk about. What is the best thing for me to do even though I don't generate any money? I have two children from a previous relationship. He has always said if you don't pay in, the IRS won't pay out.

on 3/30/2006 In some cases, filing separately makes you ineligible to contribute to a ROTH IRA.