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Germany gives you the 'Ehegattensplitting' (spouse splitting?), which allows you to tax both incomes according to the tax bracket of the mean. If one partner ea
by kaybe 13y ago
Germany gives you the 'Ehegattensplitting' (spouse splitting?), which allows you to tax both incomes according to the tax bracket of the mean. If one partner earns a lot less than the other, you're looking at a lot of money here.
- judk 13y agoThe US has the same, except it doesn't work out so generously for the top ~2% of households (earning more than ~$500k/yr)
- nullc 13y agoHere is a visualization of the tax policy (married vs not) in the US system: http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/marriage_penalties_chart.png http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/... If the German policy just lets you use the mean it sounds like it would be free of the effect of creating a penalty for marriage for equal incomes that the US has.