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Does it matter taxwise whether husband or wife pays?


               
2010 Nov 18, 8:41am   1,710 views  2 comments

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My salary is higher than my wife's, placing me (if we were single) in a higher fed. bracket.
That of course doesn't matter on the tax form (filing jointly), but does it matter when bying health insurance or health care FSA
with pre-tax dollars? Those amounts are withdrawn from the individual rather than "joint" paycheck, and it appears as though the
higher-paid spouse saves more on taxes if he takes them for the family.
Is this indeed the case or the numbers are eventually re-calculated somehow such that in the end it does not matter?

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1   SFace   2010 Nov 18, 11:59am  

It does not matter. It is pre-tax income on combined income anyway so the tax works out the same when the filing settles the tax.

2   elliemae   2010 Nov 18, 10:33pm  

what ace said.

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