Key Points ・The Senate student loan bill removes language that allowed married borrowers to exclude a spouse’s income from ...

The SSI 'marriage penalty' can reduce or eliminate benefits for recipients who marry, threatening their financial and ...

A large majority of cantonal finance directors reject both the popular initiative in favour of individual taxation and the ...

That includes taxes, and more specifically, a potential for a marriage tax penalty. This means that as a married couple you end up paying more taxes than you would if you filed separately.

'Marriage Penalty' to Hit High-Income Earners An inconvenient truth of marriage is that it often brings a tax hike compared with what the couple would pay as two single people. And the problem is ...

An NPR investigation of SSI — a program run by the Social Security Administration — found that many disabled people get caught by this "marriage penalty," a left-over rule from decades ago ...

THE PRESIDENT was right to veto the marriage penalty legislation Congress sent to him, but not for the reasons he stated. The chief shortcomings of the bill are not that it is too expensive or ...

For many years, Congress has passed income tax laws designed to mitigate the so-called “marriage penalty.” The marriage penalty occurs when a married couple with similar incomes incurs a higher tax ...