The Washington Post has made available for download their article, “Who is the ‘taxpayer’ and ‘spouse’ in marriages when both work?,” which discusses statistics and research surrounding financial norms of heterosexual couples. The article begins as follows:
When married couples file a joint tax return, the form asks them to list one partner first and the second partner as the “spouse,” even if they’re both earning income.
Joel Slemrod, a University of Michigan professor researching this subject for an academic paper, created a bit of a guessing game from the data he and his co-authors gathered from a large nationwide sample of decades of tax return information.
To see the full article, click: “Who is the ‘taxpayer’ and ‘spouse’ in marriages when both work?”
Posted by Melissa Zheng, Associate Editor, Wealth Strategies Journal.
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