<prompt> Human: Hello all. I am woefully unknowledgable about how taxes work, although Im the budgeter of the family and do pretty well with that. My husband and I both make a similar amount per year he makes about 30k gross, I make about 35k gross. I am going through my personal allowances worksheet tp update my new status with my job, and it looks like I should be filling out the two-earners worksheet because we both work and make more than 50,000. However, in doing so, it comes out that theyll need to withhold an extra 240 from each paycheck. Does that sound right? Do I even need to do the two-earners worksheet? Im so confused. Hopefully my question makes sense. Thanks!Assistant: Use the IRS withholding calculator.Human: Thank you so much for this helpful calculator... although it looks like we should be setting aside even more money from the rest of our paychecks : No one mentioned that getting married would be costly in this way!  <response>: If one of you grosses 30k and one grosses 35k, theres no difference in your tax liability assuming you do standard deduction and have nothing crazy going on.Also, remember withholding is only for you - in tiny print in the upper right of the first page of the W-4, youll see it says the lower earner should put 0 allowances, so that will bump up your husbands pay if hes 0 now. So if and this is a big if you and your husbands withholding was set correctly before, the total dollar amount wont change now... except for this first year. Because withholding is going to be off your first year of marriage unless you changed your W-4 way back in January.So run the calculator, trust it, and then run it again in January.My numbers - making some assumptions that you have a super simple tax return - show that if husband does 0 allowances, hell get 88 withheld per paycheck assuming bi weekly. With 12,6008,000 in deductions your 44,400 taxable income should result in 5,738 in tax liability. So you should have 132 taken out if bi weekly. So 240 sounds way off to me.Anyway, with salaries so similar, if you both use Married instead of Single or Married but withhold at Single rate, youll owe a little anyway even if you both to 0 allowances. 