June 27, 2015
Making such observations to state the GLBTQ community is manipulating their status in order to cut their tax burden is mired in very deep discrimination. There simply isn't all that much benefit to argue a point like this.
...The standard deduction (click here) for a single taxpayer in 2012 is $5,950, but it's double, $11,900, for a married couple filing jointly and jumps up to $13,900 if both spouses are over 65. The standard deduction for married couples who file separate returns is the same as a single filer. Each spouse also is entitled to a basic exemption of $3,800, or $7,600 if a couple files jointly, plus an exemption for each child....
A Same Sex couple without the benefit of marriage would pay exactly the same amount of tax if they remained single. ($5950.00 X 2 = $11,900). If am sure some Same Sex marriages will file as "Married but filing separately" no different heterosexual companies do on occasion.
The entire issue to imply the LGBTQ community want to have an advantage over their tax burden is nothing but discrimination and based in lies.
By Verge Staff
Casey Newton:
...If you were born after 1990, (click here) it’s easy to feel like
the entire marriage equality movement has happened in your lifetime. In
1991, Hawaii’s Supreme Court found the state’s refusal to grant marriage
licenses to same-sex couples to be discriminatory, launching the wave
of legislation and lawsuits that culminated in the US Supreme Court’s
affirmation of marriage equality yesterday.
But 40 years before Hawaii came to its senses, small groups of queer men
and women around the country were meeting in secret, under threat of
arrest, to discuss their political situation. The Mattachine Society
formed in 1950 in Los Angeles with a goal of bringing gay men together
to offer emotional support and education about gay culture. The
Daughters of Bilitis, founded in 1955 in San Francisco, brought lesbians
together and worked to educate one another and the public about female
homosexuality....
I heard some observation yesterday that Same Sex couples will gain tax favor when married. I guess so. But, that was part of it. The Same Sex couples were financially discriminated against including having to pay two health insurance policies.
The change in the tax burden for same sex couples will not sink the sovereign state of the USA.
July 15, 2014
By Eugene Volokh
...A survey (click here) released Tuesday by the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports:
Based on the 2013 NHIS data [collected in 2013 from 34,557 adults aged 18 and over], 96.6% of adults identified as straight, 1.6% identified as gay or lesbian, and 0.7% identified as bisexual. The remaining 1.1% of adults identified as “something else[]” [0.2%,] stated “I don’t know the answer[]” [0.4%] or refused to provide an answer [0.6%].More specifically, 1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual....
Making such observations to state the GLBTQ community is manipulating their status in order to cut their tax burden is mired in very deep discrimination. There simply isn't all that much benefit to argue a point like this.
...The standard deduction (click here) for a single taxpayer in 2012 is $5,950, but it's double, $11,900, for a married couple filing jointly and jumps up to $13,900 if both spouses are over 65. The standard deduction for married couples who file separate returns is the same as a single filer. Each spouse also is entitled to a basic exemption of $3,800, or $7,600 if a couple files jointly, plus an exemption for each child....
A Same Sex couple without the benefit of marriage would pay exactly the same amount of tax if they remained single. ($5950.00 X 2 = $11,900). If am sure some Same Sex marriages will file as "Married but filing separately" no different heterosexual companies do on occasion.
The entire issue to imply the LGBTQ community want to have an advantage over their tax burden is nothing but discrimination and based in lies.
