Love & Taxes: The Romance Of Filing Status

Feb. 13, 2020, 9:45 AM UTC
Copyright: Taxgirl.com; Illustration: Jonathan Hurtarte/Bloomberg Law

In her early 20s, Audrey Hepburn famously mused, “When I get married, I want to be really married.” She would, in fact, go on to be really married not once, but twice. But Hepburn’s point—that she couldn’t make a half-hearted commitment to marriage—is a sentiment shared by the Internal Revenue Service, though admittedly for less romantic reasons.

As simple as it feels to tick the box at the top of your tax return, your filing status is perhaps one of the most critical pieces of information that you report to the IRS. It informs your tax rate, the size ...

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