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...looked all right to almost all of them. Only one provision was good for a fight: the Finance Committee's amendment to prevent husbands & wives in the eight States which have community-property laws* from dividing their combined incomes in half and filing separate returns in a lower bracket...
...community-property States (e.g., California, Texas) married couples can no longer pool their incomes, divide the total, file separate returns in a lower bracket. They must base separate returns on actual earnings...
...these salaries were in a 1939 tax bracket which took from 50 to 65% of each for the Federal Government...
Actually, joint returns will simply mean that wives and husbands with separate incomes will in many cases move into a higher tax bracket.* But women felt that the rule raised a long-laid bogey: the notion that a wife's property belongs to her husband...
...their local districts. In actual fact, the fit and eligible among them will soon find themselves at or near the top. By the end of this year, the Army hopes to be taking nearly all of its new recruits (60,000 a month) from the 21-25 draft bracket...