Registering Marriage with tax office

[Tarad]

Could anyone advise if there is any benefit to registering as a married couple as opposed to two individuals. Both earning roughly the same although husband does earn expences. Is it necessary to declare marriage? thanks so much for any responses.

 

[Graham_07]

Perhaps have a read of this Revenue leaflet on the topic.

 

[DB74]

As a general rule of thumb, there is a benefit in transferring tax credits etc when one partner pays tax at the high rate and the other at the low rate only. If both partners pay tax at the same rate then there are no tax benefits to transferring tax credits from one to the other.

I can't think of any regular everyday reasons why you wouldn't elect for joint assessment though.