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  • Mr. Pat
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2006
    • 11

    #1

    marrying in June2007, can you file jointly for...

    the entire year? Or, do you pro-rate? THNX in advance and I'd also like to thank you (especially Jainen) for straight-forward answers to some of my previous inquiries.
  • BOB W
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2005
    • 4061

    #2
    Marital......

    ..... Status is determined on the last day of the year.
    This post is for discussion purposes only and should be verified with other sources before actual use.

    Many times I post additional info on the post, Click on "message board" for updated content.

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    • sea-tax
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2006
      • 971

      #3
      Pat another way of saying it is "if you are married on the last day of the year 12/31/06 is as if you are married for the whole year."

      Like wise if you die on the first day of the year it is as if you were alive the whole year.

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      • Snaggletooth
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2005
        • 3314

        #4
        Straight-forward answers?

        Originally posted by Mr. Pat
        the entire year? Or, do you pro-rate? THNX in advance and I'd also like to thank you (especially Jainen) for straight-forward answers to some of my previous inquiries.
        Mr. Pat, you've got to be kidding. Jainen can be helpful when he wants to but he answers questions with riddles. Your question about marriage is about as easy and straightforward as it can be. You're lucky he hasn't answered. You'll hear more about divorce than marriage, more about decades than years and more about claiming Eskimos than claiming your wife...

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        • sea-tax
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2006
          • 971

          #5
          Originally posted by Snaggletooth
          Mr. Pat, you've got to be kidding. Jainen can be helpful when he wants to but he answers questions with riddles. Your question about marriage is about as easy and straightforward as it can be. You're lucky he hasn't answered. You'll hear more about divorce than marriage, more about decades than years and more about claiming Eskimos than claiming your wife...

          Now Snaggs isn't that a little harsh. I mean I have my little secret decoder ring and it helps clarify his posts quite nicely. For $10.95 I wil mail you one, it works wonders.

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          • jainen
            Banned
            • Jul 2005
            • 2215

            #6
            a simple matter

            >>he answers questions with riddles<<

            Mr. Pat is remembering my answer to his previous post about a domestic partner deducting mortgage interest. I'm repeating it here, Snaggletooth, so you can explain what the riddle is.
            *************
            "Generally you can't deduct interest unless you are legally required to pay it. There is one theory, based on a court case rather different from your situation, that a co-owner must keep up mortgage payments to protect her partial ownership interest.

            Usually my clients with such an arrangement will agree that one partner pays the mortgage and the other pays equivalent value in utilities, insurance, and other housing costs. Alternatively they will add the second name to the loan, a simple matter."

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