Joe is a california resident who accepted a two year job assigment with his bank in London, England. His wife suzy, who does no work outside the home, did no want to leave her job and grandchildren, so she remained behing in Pasadena. Joe returned for a three-week vacation halfway through his contract. then went back to LONDON. What type of tax return could the couple file in california to report their bank interest income?

a)a joint nonresident return

b) separate nonresident return for Joe and separate resident return for suzy

c) a joint resident return

d) either a or b

D. Since Suzy did not earn any income for the year, then the couple could file a joint nonresident
return and both their tax obligations will be combined. 

Step-by-step explanation

The nonresident return will be used since
the income earned by Joe was outside the country and therefore the taxes have to consider this
fact. With zero income for Suzy, then the couple could agree to file the tax returns jointly to taka
an advantage of their deductions.
The next option would be for Joe to file his taxes separately and for Suzy to file hers separately
since by law, she is not the dependent on Suzy. Joe will file his taxes separately as a nonresident
since his income was from outside the state and since Suzy has no obligations to pay taxes since
she does not earn income, then she could either choose to file the taxes separately as a resident of
California or not filing the taxes at all since she did not earn the minimum amount of income to
file taxes and filing would jut be done if Suzy qualified for benefits.