Taxes Paid With State Return - Balance Due 2009

[Yardley CPA]

I have a couple who filed MFJ in 2009. There was a balance due on their state return. Couple has since divorced (finalized in 2010) and I am preparing both their individual returns this year. Can the balance due on the state return from last year be taken evenly this year on each of their respective Schedule A's under State and Local Taxes? Both have similar income levels.

[jainen]

>>Can the balance due on the state return from last year be taken evenly this year <<

That's how I would do it -- but I live in a community property state. You East Coast folks still follow the what's-mine-is-mine theory of marital bliss, so you will have to recalculate the prior year return allocating income, deductions, and taxation to one side or the other.

[michaelmars]

>>Can the balance due on the state return from last year be taken evenly this year <<

That's how I would do it -- but I live in a community property state. You East Coast folks still follow the what's-mine-is-mine theory of marital bliss, so you will have to recalculate the prior year return allocating income, deductions, and taxation to one side or the other.

NO its, what mine is mine and whats yours is mine.