Tax assessment for Legally separated

[Oscar]

My husband & I separated in May 07. I lost my job in Mar 08. He is an expat here working under very favourable positions. I'm renting and he purchased the family home. He asked for my P60 for 07 to so that he can be assessed as Married and informed the revenue that we'd separated in Dec 07.

I had already been assessed as Single person for that year.

Does anybody have a similar experience? Would I gain more if we were assessed as a married couple or am I better off remaining Single?
Thanks

 

[Ants09]

the benefits of being tax as a married couple is that your cut off point is increased and also unused tax credits can be transfered over to your other half, and any tax rebates due is given back in the ratio of tax paid by each partner, the benefits of being tax as a single person is that your responsible for your own tax and your reliefs and allowances are yours and cant be utilised by your spouse.