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We have kids and a mortgage but are not married. What happens to us on tax?
Taxes on income and inheritance can be significantly impacted by whether a couple is married or not
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- 24 Aug 2026, 07:55 UTC
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- 25 Aug 2026, 10:12 UTC
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 07:42 UTC
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- Byline
- Dominic Coyle
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Taxes on income and inheritance can be significantly impacted by whether a couple is married or not
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We have kids and a mortgage but are not married. What happens to us on tax?
Taxes on income and inheritance can be significantly impacted by whether a couple is married or not
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We have kids and a mortgage but are not married. What happens to us on tax?
Taxes on income and inheritance can be significantly impacted by whether a couple is married or not
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- #1922
- Observed
- 24 Aug 2026, 08:10 UTC
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- 751,069 bytes, private gzip evidence
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- news-ledger/0.1
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