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Originally Posted by Villagesgal
We always file married filing separately with both paying less this way. Taxaide will do it both ways for you to see which works out best, but they don't like to, you have to insist. Every year they tell us it's best to file married filing jointly, we tell them in our case no it isn't, they then do it married filing separately and always seem to be surprised that we are right.
So yes if you insist, they will do both ways and let you know.
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Married filing separately and living together will not produce less overall tax unless there is an unusual situation or the return is done incorrectly. You'd have to both be itemizing deductions or both be standard deduction. That alone makes it difficult to have a scenario where the total tax paid is less. What unusual situation do you have that would tip the scales? Or who are you getting to incorrectly file your returns?