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Committee hears testimony on HB 1388 to remove income-tax "marriage penalty"
Summary
The House Finance and Taxation Committee held a hearing on House Bill 1388, sponsored by Representative Nels Christiansen, to adjust individual income-tax brackets and remove what supporters describe as a "marriage penalty" that raises effective tax rates for some married filers and pass-through businesses.
Good morning, Chairman Hedlund and members of the House Finance and Taxation Committee. I'm Nels Christiansen and I'm honored to represent District 18, which includes Central And Northern Grand Forks and Northeast Grand Forks County. House Bill 13 88 aims to correct a condition in North Dakota's tax code that is both fundamentally unfair and has negative economic consequences, the income tax marriage penalty.
House Bill 1388 would change the individual income-tax rate schedule so that the brackets for married filing jointly are double those for single filers and the head-of-household brackets are adjusted…
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