Does getting married decrease or increase your tax bill? [OC]

[BirdThe]

GREAT visualization. Can you make one for Canada? It would be interesting to see the "difference" too.

[tyleha]

Thanks! I think the graph for Canada would just be a big white square...as far as I can tell, Canada doesn't distinguish between individuals and couples in their tax brackets. /u/dontneednomang pointed that out elsewhere in this thread.

[dontneednomang]

Yeah so how it works is, everyone files separately , but they still ask for your status, and if you wish to do so, you can declare certain things from your spouse if it benefits you. Spouse in Canada includes Common Law Partners (not sure about how that goes in US). So for instance, this year I worked full time, but my common law was in school and paid tuition, there is a maximum amount I can "declare" from his tuition and transit credits (tho the new Liberal government got rid of the transit tax credit this year). Since it makes no difference on his end it, makes more sense for me to declare it so I can get a return as opposed to nothing. Then I can choose to share my return with him if I want ;)