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Taxes Advice....not step related....

LindaL's picture

Hi everybody! I'm in a dilema right now...I know is april 13th..(bad Lindal!) but I haven't decided if I should file my taxes separately..this is the situation:
Dh and I are married, and been filing taxes togheter, we went to do our taxes togheter again and we found out that we owe $5000! :jawdrop: we don't own a house, we are not paying any new car credit, he doesn't claim the skids (BM does...every year), we'll be having our baby in one more month (so excited!) so we don't have any deductions at all, just our salaries...so when we were told that we owed that much money I was shocked..and then I found out that DH was claiming EXEMPT for most of the year! WTF!! I mean..he kept talking about him claiming exempt for half of the year and then claiming 0 for the remaining 6 months..I guess he didn't, so now we owe...DH said that WE got that money during the year anyways...how can he say WE if I still paid and keep paying half of everything in the house, clearly I dindn't get that money! and now I owe?! somehow I feel like is not my debt (yes, we are married, but I did everything right!) so...his option is not to file taxes this year, write a letter to the IRS explaining how we didn't make the dead line and next year file both years, claiming the baby and all the hospital bills and break even... :?...it just doesn't sound right to me... I could use next year's tax return for the baby expenses too...I feel like this is not fair..but I know we are married and we should support each other right?? I can't just feel right, I feel like I'm being taken advantage of...am I? or am I being greedy?? and then if I decide to file taxes separate, I know he is going to get mad..super mad...I don't have that much of experience filing taxes, because I'm from another country...please help...

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soverysad's picture

Even if you file an extension, you have to pay what you think you owe today or you could be charged interest and penalties. I would file separately and let him figure out his own damn mess.

"A pessimist complains about the wind, an optimist counts on the wind changing, a realist adjusts his sails"

There IS a difference between having a different opinion and being an asshole, find it.

starfish's picture

i'm in the same boat....... i'm getting my numbers together now and we will owe, but there is a special form you can also file and get on a payment plan..... not sure what it is yet, have to get my numbers to the cpa....

JustLeicaGirl's picture

I too, think it may be best to file an extension and see an accountant. We claim are able to claim ss on the even years & BM gets the odd years. This helps A LOT, if you guys can make some kind of deal like that.
Also, I hate to bring this up... buuuuuuuttt, as his wife, you need to be kept informed about what he has done with "his" money, etc., just as you need to let him know what you are doing... I am speaking as someone who is currently being AUDITED for 2007, and we are now responsible for 8K that the IRS is seeking --- our accountant got it down from 17K!!! And.. we are broke as a joke --- not a wealthy couple, in fact, today, we just sent a $100 "Good Faith Payment" on the outstanding bill Blum 3

LindaL's picture

I do think that DH should be able to claim the skids every other year too!! but he won't make any arrangements, he just doesn't want to deal with it..funny you mentioned it because I just did...again...and he just stared at me like it was none of my business...
I know I should be informed about it..I thought I did anyways, he told me what he was going to do, but at the end he ended up doing something totally different and he didn't tell me...this is soooooo not fair.....

LMR120's picture

You and your hubby sound like me and my BF we split everything 50/50 so I think you should file married seperate. He was the one that was pocketing that money all year long while you were paying your taxes and he wasnt he had more income through out the year because of not paying taxes. You paid your taxes last year every month and he did not. So my question to my BF would be. I paid my taxes all year you didnt so at the end of the year why would i pay your taxes also?

almostover's picture

Go hire a professional. There are things you can do to avoid HIS tax liability but you have to file special forms, etc. etc. Go to a CPA! Do not go to some fly by night tax preparer.

frustratedinMA's picture

Ok.. even if you extend your filing, you still have to pay the money owed, or end up paying penalties and interest on that money when you do finally file.

I would file seperately. Let him deal w/his mess. Especially if you are splitting the bills 50/50 and then each keeping what is left for yourselves seperately.

Then I would take my tax return (as from the sounds of it, you should get something back) and I would put it towards your baby. Now.. if he doesnt smarten up and start paying the taxes he owes, I would make sure that you file seperately again before him next year and CLAIM that baby before he does!!!

I would tell him to fix HIS bill.

Sorry, but this would piss me off.

herewegoagain's picture

File your OWN taxes...odds are he got more money every month, spent more money on his kids and YOU got the short end of the stick...file alone and let him figure out his own...DO NOT take the hit for him...