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2. Filing status - Wikipedia

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   Taxation in the United States. Under United States federal income tax law, filing status is an important factor in computing taxable income. [1] Filing status depends in part on marital status and family situation. [2] There are five possible filing status categories: single individual, married person filing jointly or surviving spouse, married ...

3. Every Tax-Filing Status Explained - AOL

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   Married Filing Jointly Standard Deduction: When filing with the married filing jointly tax-filing status, a couple can take a standard deduction of $24,800 for 2020. Learn More: 9 Tax Tips Every ...

4. Married Filing Separately: What You Need To Know for ... - AOL

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   Filing taxes under the status of “married filing separately” for tax year 2020 — i.e., the return you’re filing in 2021 — is largely unchanged from the 2019 tax year. If the IRS hands ...

5. Doing Your Taxes: How to Decide Your Filing Status - AOL

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   The IRS discourages couples from filing under this status by preventing couples filing separately from taking many deductions and credits available to married couples filing jointly.

6. Head of Household - Wikipedia

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   Head of Household. Head of Household is a filing status for individual United States taxpayers. It provides preferential tax rates and a larger standard deduction for single people caring for qualifying dependents. To use the Head of Household filing status, a taxpayer must: Be unmarried or considered unmarried at the end of the year.

7. Rate schedule (federal income tax) - Wikipedia

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   The origin of the current rate schedules is the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC), [2] [3] which is separately published as Title 26 of the United States Code. [4] With that law, the U.S. Congress created four types of rate tables, all of which are based on a taxpayer's filing status (e.g., "married individuals filing joint returns," "heads of households").

8. 10 Biggest Tax Questions for Married Couples - AOL

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   You might have two sets of income, assets, debts and deductions. If you were separated, widowed or divorced during the year, you might have an even more complicated tax situation. For specific tax ...

9. Income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The United States federal government and most state governments impose an income tax. They are determined by applying a tax rate, which may increase as income increases, to taxable income, which is the total income less allowable deductions. Income is broadly defined. Individuals and corporations are directly taxable, and estates and trusts may ...