Our new Marriage Bonus and Penalty calculator, despite all its Valentine’s Day finery, ignores the new 0.9 percent Medicare payroll tax hike buried in the 2010 health law.

The marriage penalty can exceed 30 percent of income for some couples, the research states, while 40 percent of cohabitating couples may face impediments to marriage through penalties in programs ...

The reason some taxpayers pay a marriage penalty has to do with the way the tax brackets are set up. For the 10% and 15% brackets, the income limits for each bracket for married couples are ...

The marriage penalty refers to the fact that the income tax liability of married couples in certain situations is greater than it would be if they filed separate single returns. The penalty is usually ...

"The marriage tax penalty means that when you're married, you lose some of the tax benefits you'd have if you were single," says Elizabeth Lindsay-Ochoa, director at accounting firm CBIZ MHM New ...

However, the framework does not spell out how it would eliminate the marriage penalty from taxable income rates, as Trump's campaign tax plan had done. We'll wait to see if Trump's initial tax ...

His proposal for reducing the marriage penalty in 2001 is to go back to 1981 and permit the second earner in two-earner couples to deduct 10 percent of income, up to $ 30,000.

At least 15 states' income taxes assess a marriage penalty in which the brackets for joint filers are less than double those of single people, while seven others enable couples to sidestep the ...

Why the marriage penalty happens The reason some taxpayers pay a marriage penalty has to do with the way the tax brackets are set up. For the 10% and 15% brackets, the income limits for each ...

Using the Tax Policy Center’s calculator, a couple in that situation would pay a marriage penalty of more than $1,000, assuming no other deductions.

The marriage penalty needs to go. It’s a throwback to the days when women were homemakers and men were breadwinners.

Why the marriage penalty happens The reason some taxpayers pay a marriage penalty has to do with the way the tax brackets are set up. For the 10% and 15% brackets, the income limits for each ...