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but if you are like most people and only use the standard deduction there can be a tax advatage for marrige. If you are single you get the standard deduction. If you are married you get twice the standard deduction regardless if your spouse works or not. I have two friends that are married and only take the standard decutions ( no home or enough of anything else to write off yet )
one's wife works and actually makes more than him so they should get the standard deduction ( twice that of a single person)
the others wife doesn't work and he still gets twice the single deduction. They lived together for 2 years before getting married and she didn't work for most of that time ( long story ) and during those years he only got the singler person deduction so when they got married he instantly got an additional 6K+ in deductions.
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