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Pete Domenici: “Is this what you mean? If you have two single people earning a combined income, that are single and filing separate…”

On the recordApril 1, 1998
Is this what you mean? If you have two single people earning a combined income, that are single and filing separate returns, and you have a married couple with exactly the same amount of income, the married couple, everything else being equal, will pay $1,380 more in taxes per year?
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Pete Domenici

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Discussing tax implications for single versus married taxpayers.

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