Money advice: My husband makes much more than I do. We're still splitting expenses.

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Dear Pay Dirt,

My husband and I have separate bank accounts and split expenses down the middle. We are both good earners, but in the past four years, his salary has tripled. Overall, this is fantastic—until it comes to tax time. Because we were equal earners for the first 15 years of our marriage, we split the tax bill down the middle, but now his high earnings have swollen our tax bill. He contends I should still pay half, “because we’ve always done it that way.”

Me pointing out the ratio of our earnings doesn’t move him. It doesn’t phase him either when our tax preparer unequivo