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Posted on 08/30/2013 9:02:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Same-sex couples who get a marriage license in a state that has redefined marriage to include same-sex couples, but who live in a state that does not recognize their marriage, will be treated as a married couple for federal tax purposes, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday.
The change in tax policy came after the U.S. Supreme Court this Summer struck down a provision in the Defense of Marriage Act that says marriage will be defined as the union of one man and one woman for the purposes of federal law.
The decision left unclear what it would mean for same-sex couples who married in one state but live in a state that does not recognize their marriage. It was left to the executive branch to decide many details about how the Supreme Court's decision would be implemented. Thursday's ruling, therefore, was the executive branch's clarification of the issue.
"Today's ruling provides certainty and clear, coherent tax filing guidance for all legally married same-sex couples nationwide. It provides access to benefits, responsibilities and protections under federal tax law that all Americans deserve," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a press release. "This ruling also assures legally married same-sex couples that they can move freely throughout the country knowing that their federal filing status will not change."
The ruling will apply to any part of the tax code that recognizes marriage. Civil unions, though, will not be recognized for tax purposes.
Same-sex couples can choose to, but are not required to, file an amended return for 2010, 2011 or 2012, and may receive a refund. Beginning with their 2013 tax filings, same-sex couples with a marriage license must file as either "married filing jointly" or "married filing separately."
The ruling does not apply to state taxes. So, a same-sex couple that has been married in a state that has redefined marriage, but lives in a state that has not redefined marriage, would file as married for their federal taxes and as single for their state taxes.
Land of the chimps is replacing USA.
The ruling does not apply to state taxes. So, a same-sex couple that has been married in a state that has redefined marriage, but lives in a state that has not redefined marriage, would file as married for their federal taxes and as single for their state taxes.
How could that be a problem?
Aren't you glad the feral government's bureaucracies single-handedly decide social issues for us? Don't you wish they could arbitrarily decide everything for us?
Hey, Adam and Steve. Get your check book out!
Repeal The 16th!
Maybe in the grand scheme of everything, the gay marriage issue should have been revisited. In retrospect, so much time and policy has been directed at 2% of the population, of which, only a small percentage will ever “marry”. Given that the amount of broken families in this country and the problems of poverty and crime that result, the effort to address gay marriage seems well out of proportion to the real problem in this country.
I have a dog that has been humping my leg. I feed and house him. I take care of his medical bills. Seems to me the IRS is opening a door that good old Rover can pass through.
Agreed- solves a lot of issues with government social engineering!
Heck, what am I saying, they don't care about the 1st, 2nd, or 4th Amendments either.
0bama swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the U.S.. Even to a neophyte of government, he and his administration have abrogated their responsibilities.
Impeachment must be considered in the House of Representatives. Paging Mr. Boehner, please pick up the pink courtesy telephone in the lobby.
5.56mm
that’s so the IRS can collect more taxes as one homosexual loses part of his deductions
welcome to the marriage penalty, pal
Said it before... any government that equates two deviant homos as being the same as a husband-and-wife is a government that is neither worth respect nor preserving. Better the whole country burn to the ground than embrace this kind of evil.
There is a good chance your wishes will be fulfilled. I'm wondering where the bottom ends. I have no respect for this place anymore.
Against the defense of Marriage Act.
America Sucks.
Government Marxist plan is to debauche charity, to ridicule it and the people, so as to assume heroic bureaucrat power take over. Each time a judge cries for a poor student, it is done to justify oppressing its tax payer master.
They will side with the lowest level of trash retards to wage Khmer Rouge type crazed youth propagandized pogroms. All their minion sheeps of the skin of which this wolf clothes itself is just that: furniture, clothing, gun less slaves made of media libtard never spanked nor taught thought and concern in their lives, feral monsters of chaos from the deep, broken down to be rebuilt again in the government boot camp madrasahs.
Now the IRS comes out the closet. We knew they were rogue and without need of jury, perhaps not even legally founded, part of the conspiracy of lies and fake good sounding titles all government critters depend upon for their few pieces of silver of treason.
They can do whatever they want in charitable contributions to their sbirs from hell against the wishes of the states and the constitution.
Game over.
Why our Founders didn't want a national, but a federal government. The 17th Amendment and that dirty one before it are causing all this mischief.
What was that Liberaltarians? I thought you said ‘marriage was a state issue’
and pardon my french
FUBO!
“Why our Founders didn’t want a national, but a federal government. The 17th Amendment and that dirty one before it are causing all this mischief.”
What? Marriage has never been a state issue. Never. Arguing that it was directly lead to this. Once they eliminated DOMA thanks to the complicity of folks like yourself, that opened the door.
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