Marriage Penalties and Bonuses (Families with Children Edition) August 29, 2013 Nick Kasprak Nick Kasprak My colleague Liz Malm re-posted a marriage penalty chart I created a few months ago. I've used a similar technique to create two more charts to go along with it, showing the same figures for households with one and two dependents. (These were created by running our online income tax calculator in a loop. For each single filing status calculation I tried all possible combinations of dividing up the dependents and took the lowest tax configuration.) Marriage Penalties and Bonuses for Various Households These charts were featured in our most recent issue of Tax Watch and appear on the blog for the first time here. Stay informed on the tax policies impacting you. Subscribe to get insights from our trusted experts delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe Share Tweet Share Email Topics Center for Federal Tax Policy Individual Income and Payroll Taxes