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IRS: "NO - ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE"
Crosswalk ^ | 6.16.2004 | McCullough/Burchfiel

Posted on 06/16/2004 7:28:02 AM PDT by KMC1

WASHINGTON D.C. - Saying that it will violate the Federal Law known as the "Defense of Marriage Act" (or DOMA), the Internal Revenue Service is declining recognition of same sex marriages on all federal income tax issues.

In a letter released yesterday the IRS confirmed that due to the law signed in 1996 by President Bill Clinton which states that "no state shall be forced to recognize" any union other than a man and a woman, they would not be able to allow same-sex unions to recieved "married" status on their returns or in the eyes of the federal department.

They even went as far as to say that even if a state recognizes such unions - that "recognition serves no effect for purposes under federal law".

(Excerpt) Read more at crosswalk.com ...


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KEYWORDS: defenseofmarriage; homosexualagenda; irs; samesexmarriage
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To: BossLady
haha! :^D

41 posted on 06/16/2004 5:03:45 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Call me the Will Rogers voter: I never met a Democrat I didn't like - to vote OUT OF POWER !)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Think about all those Iranians on the border....sitting there in tanks...sweatin....doing nothin....hanging out....THEN.....here come the First Transformers Brigade.....looking fabulous...of course!!! LMAO!
42 posted on 06/16/2004 5:22:13 PM PDT by BossLady (What do your choices cost you????)
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To: KMC1

Never thought I'd see the day when I agree with the IRS.


43 posted on 06/17/2004 7:16:12 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)
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