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- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Married/Single/Taxes
- Message-ID: <fcam03W9433i00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 21:45:23 GMT
- References: <130942@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1TgeoB1w164w@upchrch.UUCP>
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch ) writes:
-
- }As far as I know you are perfectly correct. I know several couples that
- }have bought houses together and had kids, without getting married and they
- }come out a lot better tax wise than if they had been married. One dodge
- }they use is to have one of them claim the child and take head-of-household
- }and take the standard deduction, while the other one files as single and
- }takes the house and itemizes.
-
- }Frankly I've got my doubts about how well such things will stand up to
- }an audit, but I tend to be very conservative about how I do my taxes.
- }If such situations become common, I suspect the IRS is going to start
- }cracking down and tell couples that they are married for tax purposes
- }and to file a joint return.
-
- You're being a little overly paranoid. There is absolutely nothing
- illegal about a couple choosing not to get married. The IRS can do
- a lot of things, but it cannot just "decide" that a couple is married
- for tax purposes in order to get more money from them.
-
- --James Preston
-