Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Edition Rev. November 2023 2 pages

Form 8379 (2023) — Injured Spouse Allocation

Lets a spouse on a joint tax return get back their share of a refund that the IRS applied (or will apply) to the other spouse's past-due debt, such as child support, a student loan or state tax. It asks whether you qualify, then splits the joint return's income, deductions, credits and payments between the two of you.

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Form 8379 · Injured Spouse Allocation
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What is Form 8379?

Lets a spouse on a joint tax return get back their share of a refund that the IRS applied (or will apply) to the other spouse's past-due debt, such as child support, a student loan or state tax. It asks whether you qualify, then splits the joint return's income, deductions, credits and payments between the two of you.

What’s on Form 8379

The 2023 edition has 2 pages. FileIt asks for it in 5 parts:

  1. Part I. Should you file this form?Injured spouse
  2. Part II. Information about the joint returnInjured spouse
  3. Part III. Allocation between spouses of items on the joint returnInjured spouse
  4. Part IV. Signature (only if filing Form 8379 by itself)Injured spouse
  5. Paid preparer use onlyPaid preparer

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