Also, you can't claim certain things as married filing separately as you can married filing jointly. The advantage is a bigger standard deduction. This is the amount the IRS subtracts from your income for the year. Say, you made $30,000 and your spouse made 36,000. Filing separately you would have only received a combined deduction of say...$6,000. Filing together, with your income combined, you might have a deduction of say $7,000 or more. It's been a while since I've prepared taxes, don't take my Word on the exact #'s. HELL NO! It your deduction was 5000 and you paid 25000 in tax that would be 20% if you were married and your deduction was increased to say 10,000 and you AND your spouse paid 50,000 in tax that would be 20% There is no actual striaght benifit. Depends on what you make over all , vs what deductions u each can claim. Kids, COsts etc what you paid in tax etc.
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