[ultrasaurus]

There are places in the tax code where Single != Married Filing Separately.

One pertinent example is that Washington State's capital gains tax applies after $270k per single person, per married couple filing jointly OR split in half for married filing separately. Which could be a theoretical $18.9k/year difference in taxes.

[lostmsu]

Yeah, that particular deduction reeks of some big brain energy. My family is going to be outta here by the end of the year, hopefully.