Tax filing advice needed - married but living in 2 states + husband is now deployed
My husband and I got married in June 2010. Prior to getting married, I lived in NYC and he lived in another state. After getting married, we still lived in separate states. Furthurmore, my husband deployed to a combat zone in August. How would we go about filing a tax return? Would we file MFJ along with a NY return as well as one with his domicile state and put my address as a home address? Should we claim his state as our home state (since in NYC there is double tax for state and city)?
I also heard that any income he earns while in a combat zone is tax free so how would we take care of that on the return? Do we just deduct whatever income he earned in a combat zone from his total income and only report that on his w-2?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!