Do you or your spouse pay alimony? I'm having a HUGE problem with the IRS.

I don't pay alimony, but I would imagine that you should be able to claim in to your taxes. She should be the one paying taxing on this money since it is considered income for her. I really don't understand why you should pay the tax and she has to pay the tax unless they aren't taxing her?). As for your non-modifidable issue with the court system. I would find someone who knows about law loopholes and see if you really can't modify it because she just received that large lump someone of money. Usually alimony has limits, conditions or restrictions on them and I would think that inheriting such a large sum of money would affect her alimony.

I don't know what they are talking about non-modifiable divorce, but alimony is a deduction on your taxes (there is a line specifically for it - you need to include her ssn) and it is income on her taxes. Have you tried calling the IRS and asking a human to explain in plain english what they are talking about?

Did your issue get resolved?

actaully i dont have any knowledge about those problem, because her in kuwait we are not paying taxes, this is very good for this place free of taxes, but in other country what i know is the more your salary is high the more you will pay taxes i dont know if this is true actually.

I don't pay alimony. so i don't claim it on my taxes. I suppose it does make sense that alimony payments are tax deductible, since they are funds that are being channeled to another source, and not income earned per se. I hope this matter gets sorted out soon, and that you get good advice from mylotters who have similar experiences. all the best!

I live in Canada and alimony here is not considered income to the person receiving it, so the person paying it can't claim it. The taxes have to be paid on that income so now the law is that the spouse paying the alimony has to pay it. This law changed about 10 years ago here. I don't know what the laws are in the States but you may want to look more deeply into it because it sounds to me like it is the same there as here.

My husband has no kid with his ex so there is no alimony! He just offered a certain amount to help his ex financially for 2 years and this will be over this month!

Usually, alimony is tax deductible, its cs that's not tax deductible. Nonmodifiable means that the $1000 a month can't be lowered or raised. He should've paid attention to what he was saying in court and he should've made sure to state that the alimony would be tax deductible. If he didn't make sure of that, he won't get the money back from taxes. If the irs claims that the alimony doesn't count, why would your ex only owe $600? How long has your husband been paying alimony? Has your husband been claiming the alimony as tax deductible since he started paying? If it doesn't say that the alimony is nonmodifiable in the court papers, then when he files his taxes yearly, along with regular fed and state, unless the rebated alimony is included with the fed and state, he should be getting back $12000 a year just from alimony period. Your husband must make a lot of money to be able to afford to pay $1000 a month. Do you have any income?