Who is the 'taxpayer' and 'spouse' in marriages when both work?
Briefly

When married couples file a joint tax return, the form asks them to list one partner first and the second partner as the "spouse," even if they're both earning income.Joel Slemrod, a University of Michigan professor researching this subject for an academic paper, created a bit of a guessing game from the data he and his co-authors gathered from a large nationwide sample of decades of tax return information.
Read at Washington Post
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