Doing taxes alone

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Since my husband did not contact me about doing a joint income tax return this year, I decided I’m gonna file on my own. My status will be married filing separately. It’ll take me at least 1 1/2 hours one way to get to the place that I used to go to with my husband and about the same to get home. I decided to go there because they have our joint return from last year so if any information is needed from last year’s return, they have access to it. Since this is not a joint to return, they needed to create a new file for me and asked me to fill out a lot of information and submit it on their website. One of the things they asked for was my birthday. I tried to enter the date, but I wasn’t able to do so. I pressed the numbers but nothing was typing. I clicked on the calendar icon next to that text box and a calendar appeared showing March 2026. There was no option to select my birth year. What I had to do was click the left arrow until I got to 1982. Had to do a lot of clicking on that arrow because it’s over three decades worth of years to go through and then 12 months in each year to get to my birthday. I was hoping I would not have to file a tax return for 2025 since I did not work in 2025. However, we have joint bank accounts that earned interest that has to be reported. Since I am the primary person on these accounts I am responsible for reporting any interest earned on them. We used to pay somewhere in the $200s to do our taxes so I’m assuming the same will be true for me this time around. I doubt I will get any return. I will probably have to pay something for that bank interest. I wonder if I will owe federal, state, or both.