u/Electrical-Ad7399

**JUST FOR TAXES and FINANCIAL PURPOSES!!** I guess I buried this at the bottom of my post, but I'm purely talking about TAXES ... thank you but I don't need generalized relationship advice or info about estate planning and POA, i'm purely asking about tax filing**

Hi - my partner and I are expecting twins in the fall. We're "emotionally" but not legally married, not opposed to it but it's really just not important to us symbolically and has never presented itself as financially or legally beneficial to the tune that we should rush out and do it. But I'm trying to just confirm what if any difference is now with twins on the way and I can't seem to find any clear advantage.

We live in Pennsylvania, we each make very equivalent salaries around $90k, so filing as single or married puts us in the 22% tax bracket either way. Doubling the standard deduction as married vs having two separate deductions as separate single filers appears to be the same, we're well under either income ceiling for the Child Tax Credit .... can anybody tell me if I'm missing something very obvious financially? I get that a joint filing might be simpler and all that, I don't need generalized relationship advice because we are very much on the same page and good, but, financially, is there any benefit we'd be missing out on not being married?

Maybe a stupid or unanswerable question, but I'm only a year or so into physical media: is there a cutoff year *generally* where before then you wouldn't bet a Blu Ray release to be of solid transfer quality? I understand each release varies in quality, but i'm just wondering if transfer quality for the format didn't hit its stride until a certain point. I would assume a release from 2006 would in all likelihood be of lesser quality than one from 2016 *generally*, just wondering if that guidepost year is more 2008 or 2014 or doesn't really exist? please be nice if question stupid :)

EDIT AFTER COMMENTS: Thanks for the feedback. Most responses were "it depends", which I mostly figured, so the answer to my question seems to be "the year shouldn't be too big a factor, any release from any time can be very good". That's what I wanted to confirm, so mission accomplished! Feel free to add below if you have other kinds of comments.