Congress should reform the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit to be more pro-work and pro-family, eliminating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senators opposed to the bill say it also gives a tax cut to couples who don't pay the so-called marriage penalty, but in fact pay less filing jointly than they would singly.

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 ...

President Biden introduced a “potential marriage penalty” into the tax system when he ordered the IRS to conduct more audits of higher-income Americans, the agency’s inspector general said.

Nearly every politician in Washington agrees that the marriage penalty is unfair. Who could think otherwise? The penalty–a quirk in the tax code that forces some married couples to pay higher ...

It found a mixed bag. "A marriage penalty arises when tax structures, welfare program eligibility rules or other government programs place a disproportionate burden on a married couple compared to ...