Hello there,
I'm sorry to hear that you had an unpleasant surprise when filing your taxes. There are a couple of things that may have caused the balance due. When you file married filing joint, your income is combined to come up with your taxable income. Depending on your income before you were married, you may have qualified for certain credits or deductions that may not be applicable now, and with the combined income, you may be in a different tax bracket then you were before. When you check the box for Married Filing Joint, they will withhold at at a lower tax rate. I would definitely take a few minutes to use the Tax Caster to see where your tax return might end up looking like so you have time to make adjustments now versus later. If you find that there isn't enough withholding, you can elect to have an additional withholding on line 4(c) of the Form W-4 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf .
Here is the link for the Tax Caster: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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