Hello, my husband's salary is more than doubled of mine. In the past few years, I've been filing jointly with him and we have to pay lots of tax when we file our tax return. We are low middle class people and it doesn't make sense to me. This year, I used turbo tax and create three tax return, one is family joint, one is his (married filing separately), one is mine (married filing separately). I thought family jointly will benefit us, but it turns out, we have to pay even $1K more than he is filing by himself as married filing separately. Not adding I am getting the refund. I know I'm getting some unpaid stimulus check credit because I won't get it because I filed our tax jointly in the past few years which make us not qualified. But even for himself, filing separately is resulting less tax payment which makes me question why people keep talking filing jointly is better than separately?
