(Americans) Have you filed your tax returns yet?

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Originally Posted by sweetwater

We were burned hugely one year

They raped us the year we got married. I had always looked at the charts up until then and saw that married people paid less in tax, but it didn't occur to me that I was only looking at the line for my single income, and that when we got married we had to add our incomes together and read the line in that part of the table. It bumped us up into a higher tax bracket, and even though we dutifully reported our filing status change to our employers, we got married late in the year, and those couple of months weren't enough to withhold what we owed.

It wasn't until we bought a house and had two kids that the federal taxes went way way way down.