how does “getting married for tax purposes” work
In: Economics
When you get married you get to combine your deductions.
If one person isn’t working or working very little, all of their deductions go to “waste” because they’re not paying any taxes anyway.
Marrying someone who is paying a lot of taxes will allow them to double the deductions without doubling the household income, and so the tax burden goes down.
When I got married our combined tax burden dropped by about $1500 a year. If my wife was unemployed the drop would have been considerably larger.
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