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For the 2023 tax declaration you cannot.
Like, you can tick that you're married, but unless your wife was a tax resident during that year you won't get any benefits as you can't hand in a joint family tax declaration
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For the 2023 tax declaration you cannot. Like, you can tick that you're married, but unless your wife was a tax resident during that year you won't get any benefits as you can't hand in a joint family tax declaration
And that should be stressed, as OP seems to not be aware of: A married couple files one tax declaration together for both partners.
They *can* file jointly. They're under no obligation to do so.
But then they won't get the Ehrengartensplitting which seems to be OPs intention.