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- From: millios@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (william.l.millios)
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: Re: Tax info for 93?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.214017.11152@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:40:17 GMT
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- In article <23055@venera.isi.edu> tar@isi.edu writes:
- >In article <...> brownr@hydra.rtp.dg.com (Randy Brown) asks:
- > > So two single people together get taxed at 15% for their first 42,900, but
- > > a married couple only have 35,800 taxed at 15% and above that at 28%?
- > > What balances out for this fact? Deduction is different or what?
- >
- >Nothing balances for this fact. This phenomenon has been dubbed "the
- >marriage tax." It is a relic of days in which the following
- >assumptions held:
- >
- > 1) Married women did not work.
- > 2) Unmarried people did not share a household.
- >
- >The impact of #2 was that two single people could be expected to have
- >higher household expenses than two married people. With this
- >expectation, "fairness" dictated that a married couple have a lower
- >deduction. Evaluating the truth of these two assumptions is left as
- >an exercise in sociology for the reader.
-
- What about two married people having two households? I live in NJ,
- my wife lives in DC...
-
- Bill
-