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Tro, please read this "question"?
Tro, I doubt this will do any good, but I feel a moral obligation to try. You regularly answer tax questions stating that if a married-but-separated couple hasn't spent a single 'nite' together during the last six months of the year, they can file as single. For federal income tax purposes, this is simply not the case. In some very specific circumstances one might be able to file as head of household, but unless there is a legal separation with a decree of separate maintenance neither person in the couple can file as single. Without the separate maintenance decree, the ONLY possible filing statuses are MFJ, MFS, or HOH. Filing as single simply is not an option. Please review Pub. 17, chapter 2. The sub-section on filing as single is only three short paragraphs.
There, I tried.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm glad you tried, but I too think it's on deaf ears.
Worse, I'm pretty sure tro has stated that he is a tax preparer! One fears how many clients he's set up for audits.
- SumDudeLv 71 decade ago
I have also noticed that he absolutely maintains that a married person cannot be a dependent on someone else's return (which would usually be their parents); but see 2009 Pub 17 pg 28 middle column for exceptions allowing married dependents.
Thanks for trying, card-ron. A wrong answer and action in this section can lead to financial pain.
Source(s): Accounting degree; - semi-trained (lol) to read IRS guidelines. - troLv 71 decade ago
my reference is CCH and years of experience
more than twenty years ago one of the classes I attended conducted by a former employee of IRS stated that married couples living apart were able to claim single and I had a client we claimed this status for probably more than 10 yrs, until he finally got a divorce and remarried
I also had another co worker who was told by IRS that she could file single unless there was one single 'overnite' which negated the 'single' status
I have prepared taxes for 50 yrs and in all that time, one audit
- 1 decade ago
It's not likely to help. He refuses to be corrected, and won't allow e-mails to his profile.
