Is it illegal to file separate on taxes and say your not married and put a different address for your spouse so you can claim the kids?

Answer 1

YES, you can file married and separately, try it both ways married and married filing separate to determine which way is best. However, make sure you claim all interest, taxes, child care etc.

Wow, respectfully - enough already.

First decades of experience prove that anytime someone says "this is what someone else did" or "this what happened to someone else because" all those types of things...the facts provided are NEVER right just to start..and your having to explain and re-explain (and still say sort of ridiculous things) in the discussion page sort of proves that.

NOW: It is a choice (called an election), that may be changed each and every year, absolutely without question, whether you file seperately or jointly (or as head of household, etc., etc) as long as you qualify as what you claim. Period.

Deductions (including children) are available to any person, but only ONE, that qualifies to claim them.

To take a person as a deduction, including a child, you must provide an SS#. By doing that, no one, INCLUDING the person being claimed as a deduction, can claim a deduction for that SS#. (Yes, children need to file a tax return if they have income, just like anyone else, so if you claim them, or anyone, they can't be a deduction on their own return if they need to file one).

Addresses make not one drop of difference in any regard. Almost humorous you could think so.

Most preparers and any of even the cheapest of software to prepare your returns, will compare the data in a separate to filing jointly format to see which has a better result. Normally the result is either so obvious (one spouse has no income the other a lot = joint) or so similar it makes little or no difference.

I LIKE TO BE BLUNT - SO PLEASE ALLOW ME:

Do you really think, with all the hundreds of millions of returns filed over just a few years, the zillions if you will, of very smart, very committed people making the laws (or very normal, say working for the IRS types), and many, many super rich with staffs of very knowledgeable accountant and lawyers, (who also file returns, and have kids and parents etc that do), that your going to find a way to trick it all, and get a double benefit... by changing addresses or even simple basic lying, do you?

Ya' think its maybe more likely whatever your doing that you imagine is so clever will actually be picked up by the first level of computer review, and an automatic adjustment, with penalty and interest sent out? (Which clearly makes all things and future reports for that SS# suspect).

Get real.