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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
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- Subject: Re: Married/Single/Taxes
- Message-ID: <CARL.92Jul27142047@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 18:20:47 GMT
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- In-reply-to: jsp@uts.amdahl.com's message of 23 Jul 92 17:51:25 GMT
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- >You need to remember that the tax tables were designed with the assumption
- >that a married couple would have one income. If I make a hundred thousand
- >a year, and then I marry a woman who doesn't work, my taxes will indeed be
- >lower when that hundred thousand is filed as a married income rather than as
- >a single income (this can easily be seen by looking at any line on the tax
- >table; for any given income, the single tax is higher than the married tax).
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- >But if instead my wife works and we each make fifty thousand a year, then the
- >tax on our combined one hundred thousand filed as a married income will be
- >substantially higher than the combined tax on our individual fifty thousand
- >incomes filed singly.
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- It is also higher than if only one of you made 100k while you were
- married!!! One of the reasons for that is ***FICA***, well at least
- that part that would normally end after 50 some odd thousand will be
- paid for the full 100k if you have 2 incomes versus one.
-
- -Carl-
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