Do you need an injured spouse form 8379 every year? Yes, if you file married filing jointly and your want a refund. Read More about Injured Spouse Form 8379 and Read comments from others.
A few years back I wrote about filing an injured spouse IRS 8379 and receive a massive response from people all over the word. There is a problem when you get your tax return and realize that it is not what you were expecting because of your spouse’s past debt obligations. Or maybe you didn’t receive a tax return at all. There is a solution to being married and still receiving your part of the money. Often times, in community property states your spouse may not even worked all year but you filed together one can still possibly receive their portion of the tax rebate when one files the injured spouse form.
This year the IRS really was backed up in processing injured spouse forms. You can complete you injured spouse form with your tax return or you can send it in after the fact. I would like to share one major deal that happen this year with someone I know in processing an injured spouse form with an amended return. By all means if you are a first timer, you can ignore what “where’s my refund” says because once the IRS actually starts to process the return the site will not be updated with any refund information.
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