Filing Injured Spouse Form and how much will I get refunded?
I had a simular questions that I asked a few days ago but to answer your question about filing the form electronically, hacer_ is correct, you do a form search Form 8379-Injured Spouse and it will allow you to file the form electronically. I tried filing my taxes last week but the form wasn’t avaliable until the 30th. So, I filed my taxes on the 1st, which was sunday electronically with the injured spouse form. The IRS states it takes up to 11 weeks to process electronically and up to 14 weeks if paper return. As far as splitting the refund up and what amount is determined in the end result, I read that the IRS splist the credit equally as far as the children are concerned if it you live in a community property state and then you get what would have came from you from the git-go. So, let’s say your refund would have been a certain amount based off of what you had paid in, then you would get that money back. For me, I worked and my husband was out of a job all year we didn’t qualify for