Talk:Marriage penalty
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Does "marriage penalty" mean the couple must pay higher taxes than two unrelated people with the same income, etc.? Or simply that it can cost more to file together? --Uncle Ed 18:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- Trouble with second paragraph, I'm not sure the proper correction. It currently says "The source of this increase in taxes has its roots in the progressive tax-rate structure in income-tax laws, that is, a higher income pays a higher rate of tax. In such a context income averaging is advantageous to the taxpayer. E.g. two persons, one making $80,000 and the other making $20,000 in a particular year, will pay a larger combined tax than they would if both had an income of $50,000 in the same year." If it is advantageous to average, wouldn't that mean they would pay a smaller combined tax? It seems so, but when I went to fix it I got confused. Sigh. GRBerry 23:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
