Filing taxes
I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this, so if anyone has some suggestions for somewhere more suitable, please let me know.
So we just moved back to the US at the end of March, after 5 years in the UK. While in the UK, hubby (US Citizen) did not bother to file taxes, we eventually did it at the beginning of this year in order to get my immigrant visa. We filed with the exclusion stuff so that his UK income wouldn't be double taxed as he was well under the $80k threshold.
Now, we only filed up to 2006, so we need to do 2007. However, the only record we have of his income is his P45 from the UK when he left his job a couple of weeks before moving back here, and the UK Tax year is from April to April rather than Jan-Dec as it is in the US.
So my question is, should we just file 2007 and have the tax year end in April (this is what we did with the previous years, just put the april date at the top) or will this have a weird knock on effect for next years taxes as it will then be a short year? Or I could divide the amount up and work out his monthly income from April-Dec last year, but then I'd be left with 3 months left over for next year to exclude...
Am I worrying too much about this? I think my MIL has TurboTax somewhere for 2007 but not sure if this covers it? I don't want to pay anyone to sort this out for me, as we don't have jobs and won't have for a couple more months.
So we just moved back to the US at the end of March, after 5 years in the UK. While in the UK, hubby (US Citizen) did not bother to file taxes, we eventually did it at the beginning of this year in order to get my immigrant visa. We filed with the exclusion stuff so that his UK income wouldn't be double taxed as he was well under the $80k threshold.
Now, we only filed up to 2006, so we need to do 2007. However, the only record we have of his income is his P45 from the UK when he left his job a couple of weeks before moving back here, and the UK Tax year is from April to April rather than Jan-Dec as it is in the US.
So my question is, should we just file 2007 and have the tax year end in April (this is what we did with the previous years, just put the april date at the top) or will this have a weird knock on effect for next years taxes as it will then be a short year? Or I could divide the amount up and work out his monthly income from April-Dec last year, but then I'd be left with 3 months left over for next year to exclude...
Am I worrying too much about this? I think my MIL has TurboTax somewhere for 2007 but not sure if this covers it? I don't want to pay anyone to sort this out for me, as we don't have jobs and won't have for a couple more months.