Skip To Main Content. Marriage tax penalty or marriage bonus? That's a significant marriage penalty. But, in general, The more unequal two spouses' incomes, the more likely that combining those incomes on a joint return will pull some of the higher earner's income into a lower bracket.
That's when the marriage bonus occurs. When two high-earning spouses have relatively equal incomes, the odds of getting hit with the marriage penalty go up.
What is your filing status? Choosing that status comes with several special rules, including: You can't claim the Earned Income Tax Credit. You can't deduct student loan interest. You can't claim the Child and Dependent Care Credit. If one spouse itemizes deductions , both must itemize — even if the standard deduction would result in a lower tax bill for the other spouse.
You can't mix and match. Check your withholding Once you're back from the honeymoon, you and your spouse may need to adjust the withholding from your paychecks. The new form helps you determine how much federal income tax your employer should withhold from your paychecks based on your filing status, other income, and credits and deductions.
Coordinate benefits Speaking of your jobs, being married could open up some new opportunities to save through your employer. Take the completed form into your local SSA office along with documents proving your identity and an original or certified copy of your marriage certificate. If you're up against the tax filing deadline and haven't yet changed your name with the SSA, you can still file a joint return with your spouse.
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However, marriage is expensive and likely to fail. This sentiment has become more apparent as some gay couples who now have the choice to marry decide not to.
Elizabeth Wood, a year-old lesbian, told The New York Times that as a gay person, she's always felt like a "quasi-outlaw" and that taking on an age-old tradition like marriage would be forsaking her lifelong "edgy nonconformist streak. While this probably applies more to folks with mostly single friends, many people sense strains in their friendships after they get married.
In a New York magazine piece , Amy Sohn highlights the ways some couples lose interest in their social lives after getting married:. Of course, I changed a little, too. Without an incentive to man-hunt, I was less interested in going to parties and bars. And wedding planner Sandy Malone opined in a Huffington Post blog that people tend to lose at least one close friend after getting married, as a husband or wife fills that role. When someone spends every waking hour with their spouse, that can lead to neglecting the other people in their life.
Which brings us to our next point Marriage can lead to the risky habit of relying on one individual for every emotional need. These days, a happy marriage requires a serious commitment of time and energy that can be hard to maintain.
Eli J. Finkel, a psychological researcher who studies human relationships, concludes that in marriages today , "individuals who can invest enough time and energy in their partnership are seeing unprecedented benefits. According to sociologists Jeffrey Dew and W. Bradford Wilcox, married couples who spend time alone talking or doing an activity together at least once a week were 3.
Seems pretty easy to achieve, except for the fact that most Americans are extremely busy. Dew also reported that among married couples without children, time spent with each other's spouse declined from 35 hours to 26 each week. Much of this was due to each person needing or wanting to spend more time at work.
And those with children saw a decrease of 13 hours per week to nine, likely due to an increase in time spent with their children. The fact that good marriages require more time and effort than ever is further validated by the differing divorce rates between wealthy couples and their less affluent counterparts.
Studies show that lower-income couples get divorced more , and part of the blame lays in those couples' lack of resources, time and otherwise, says Frankel. And, as dim as it sounds, plenty of marriages in this country end up in a divorce anyway. For almost every couple, with marriage comes the potential for divorce. And divorces can be tricky and very expensive. In a Pew Research study conducted on people who lived with a partner in Columbus, Ohio, 67 percent of middle-class participants said despite being excited about marriage, they worried about "the social, legal, emotional and economic consequences of divorce.
And the some divorce statistics in the United States make it seem pretty grim for those who believe that marriages will last forever. And drove off the bridge. And the car went into the lake. And I couldn't get him out of his car seat. And he drowned. And I struggle with God so much, because I can't forgive myself. And I don't really want to right now. I can live with it, but I can't forgive myself.
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