I don't know if anyone does. If they do, can they answer what I would think is a very simple question:
Do we need to file a tax return for a deceased relative who died in 2012 (early January 2012) if the net result of the return is certainly going to be that she owed no taxes?
Basically, my wife's mother passed away last year on January 5th. She has some trivial amount of income for 2012, like a few hundred dollars, which of course is not going to result in any tax liability.
Do we need to actually file a return for her anyway?
Not a tax professional, but my guess is no. I think the income threshold to require filing is somewhere over $3000. I could be wrong.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 10, 2013, 10:50:09 AM
Not a tax professional, but my guess is no. I think the income threshold to require filing is somewhere over $3000. I could be wrong.
Yeah I've always been under the same impression.
I know you don't have to file, barring "special circumstances" if your income is less than $11,200, which of course it is - her only income is a single social security check for January, and that isn't taxable anyway.
The question is that she had some stock that was sold on her behalf - it is a small amount, less than $1000, but is that stock sale separately taxable?
I actually just got a response from a tax person - it is not, because it is income for her beneficiaries, since it was sold after she was deceased. So she has no reprtable income, much less none more than $11,200, so we don't have to file a return at all after all.
Mart probably knows this stuff.
Dorsey4Guller might know.
Wasn't he an actuary too?
An accountant. :lol:
How original. :rolleyes:
Quote from: DGuller on April 10, 2013, 05:51:53 PM
How original. :rolleyes:
just because it's old and oft used doesn't mean it's not funny. Whose on first and what not.