Re:Peter Thiel will speak at GOP convention
by tanderson92 on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:27AM
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Here is an interesting paper on Taxation and marriage: "Taxation and Marriage: A Reappraisal"
> Marriage taxation presents a "trilemma": An income
> tax cannot simultaneously maintain progressive
> marginal tax rates, an equal tax burden for all married
> couples with identical incomes ("couples equity"),
> and neutrality with respect to the tax burden of
> married versus unmarried couples ("marriage
> neutrality").
Much more interesting discussion: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
When household income is above $150k, married couples with roughly equal incomes to each other will pay more in taxes than if they were single. That is because the tax brackets for married couples are wider than for singles, but not twice as wide.