Perspective
Aug. 25, 2016
IRS offers up a reason to remain unmarried?
The IRS just made it worse for married people and better for single people. If two unmarried people own a home, they get double the mortgage interest deduction available to a married couple—and it all started with the 9th Circuit. By Robert W. Wood
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
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Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
If you are single, you file your taxes as "single." But if you are married, you can file either jointly or separately. Most married couples file jointly, since filing your taxes "married filing separately" is usually more expensive in the aggregate. But filing separate can be cleaner if you get divorced, or if your spouse has current, former or future tax problems.
But how you file if you are married is another to...
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