MFS Filing status

[Philip]

Have a client filing MFS.  E-file error message says "SpouseClaimAsDependent" is not checked, then the Spouse SSN must not be the same as a Dependent SSN on another return.  I get this message regardless of whether the "Box" is checked or not.

ATX help desk I MUST Paper-file this return.  This is Ridiculous!  Spouse e-filed her ow return, she is no one's dependent.   Is this an ATX Problem or a True IRS E-file problem?  Must I paper-file this tax returns?  

Please advise, and Thanks.

[Jack from Ohio]

Paper File the return.  Nothing else you say, or do, will change the situation.

There is more going on, than you are being told.