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December 7, 2025
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What address should be used when filing a prior year return, their current address and locality code or the address on the w-2?

  • December 7, 2025
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My client recently learned that his x-wife failed to file a joint return in 2020. They were estranged at the time but were working things out or so he thought. According to him, he provided her with his w-2 and assumed that she had filed the taxes as they always had done jointly. He recently learned that his 2020 return has not been filed. I'm working on the return and would like to know if I should use his current address and locality code or where he resided in 2020.

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BobKamman
Level 15
December 7, 2025

His current address, but his filing status back then (MFS).

He thought she had signed the return for him, also?  But be kind, people getting a divorce are not subject to any rules.  Or, so they tell me.