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Originally Posted by Muta
Why do married couples / common law couples get financial advantages over non-married / single people? That's discriminating.
The marriage thing bugs me, since it means you get a financial advantage if you're religious. What if you're atheist / agnostic, and a religious institution such as marriage simply doesn't apply to you? You get left in the cold.
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It's not so much that marriage = tax breaks.
It's more that as a married unit, since you (usually) share finances as a unit, you can be taxed as a unit and share some deductions/credits that one might not be able to fully use.