Are any children involved? Maybe they are both filing HoH
> with EIC, the same as they did before they were married.
> That could easily be $7,000 better than MFJ.
Sorry, no EIC if you file MFS.
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Re: Tax Benefit for Marrired Couple Living Separately
Oct 12, 2007
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There is no such thing.
Don Priebe has already mentioned the most likely possibility. A married person who has at least one dependent child can qualify for head of household filing status if he/she has lived apart from his/her spouse the last 6 months of the year. However, if that is what they are doing and if the couple are getting together for conjugal relations the IRS is going to argue, on audit, that they weren't really living apart. Then the IRS will change their filing statuses to married filing separate return and they wil owe more than $7,000 in back taxes plus penalties and interest.
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