<prompt> Human: Im filing jointly with my wife this year. We had a child in 2016 and hes still our dependent and all that. We dont own a house. I made 94,445.89 and she made 55,770.23 for a total of 150,216.12. I paid 11,914.70 Fed, 6,326.77 SS, 1,479.65 Med, 3,780.66 State. My wife paid 6,382.10 Fed, 3,671.65 SS, 858.69 Med, 1,933.57 State.I hadnt plugged in any other numbers but already it was saying we would owe around 5k to the fed and 1,800 to the state. This seems crazy but we had the same problem last year.I realized I was stupidly claiming 1 allowance on my w4 so thats been corrected for 2018, I know thats probably the source of the problem but it still seems like we owe a ton for just one allowance on mine? I havent seen my wifes w4 but she says she always marks zero.Should i seek a professionals help rather than filing on my own again? Is the owed amount likely to be what Turbotax initially said? We almost always use the standard deduction because we dont own a house and dont have a ton of things to deduct. She gets a small amount from dividends off an old investment and pays a lot in student loans each year if that matters? We also paid around 10k for our kids daycare but I hadnt thought that was likely change things much since we didnt use a flex spending account or anything like that.Thanks for any advice you can offer.  <response>: The problem definitely isnt the filing. You just arent paying anywhere near enough in taxes throughout the year. 