re: Biden Administration clarifies it won’t raise taxes on individuals, just married couples

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Just get divorced, and still live together.

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You don’t have to do that. There is no law that says you cannot file single if you are married.

The federal government does not know if you are married or divorced. Through sovereign immunity and the supremacy clause.. it ultimately doesn’t care.

Try showing a divorce decree to the IRS when you owe joint taxes on a return. The local judge may say one person is responsible... but the IRS says you both are anyway.

So just file single. You lose the benefit... but you avoid the punishment of success.