TheBanyanTree: The Winds of Change

[Monique Colver]

Tax returns are Married Filing Joint for two years after a spouse's death,
by the way.

Monique

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Margaret R. Kramer <
margaret.kramer at polarispublications.com> wrote:

> The bad news is that I changed my tax filing status from married to single
> in 2009 and my payroll tax jumped up to $113 a paycheck!  Good gracious!
> Now I understand why Congress wanted to keep people married by making
> married people pay less taxes, but I didn't ask to be single, so why not a
> widow/widower tax that's the same as what married people pay.  I'm barely
> making ends meet as it is, and now I get $226 less dollars a month.  Do I
> have to work THREE jobs?
>
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