BobKamman
Level 15
03-04-2025
01:12 PM
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I had to do a word search for "separate" to find the single sentence on Page 4 of the 2210 instructions that halfway answers this question.
"If you file a 2024 return as single, head of household, married filing separately, but you filed a joint return with a spouse for 2023, your 2023 tax is your share of the tax on the joint return."
But how do you figure that? In a community-property state it's easy, just take half. Maybe. But is "your share of the tax" computed with credits that aren't allowed on separate returns?
Fill out the 2210 showing previous year as zero, and wait to see if there are enough warm bodies left at IRS to question it.