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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
Not sure what I was doing wrong but when I was married and entered my spouse's income in quick tax I got railed hard.
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Was that compared to previous tax years or compared to with and without your spouse's income included on that particular return? Because if you filled out your form saying you were married but didn't put your spouse's income in right away then Quicktax would calculate assuming your spouse made $0 which would give you an extra $10,527 in exemptions. Once you input the income though, the program recalculates and your tax bill goes up by several thousand because your spouse's exemption is no longer transferred to you. But that discrepancy isn't a comparison between being married and being single, it's a comparison between having a spouse with zero income and having one with a full time job.
Now, if you're comparing to previous years, then I'm not sure what the issue is. Maybe some income sensitive tax rebates that you no longer qualified for, but those don't usually amount to a whole lot.