Edith Windsor And The Struggle Against DOMA As Seen By A Tax Geek
It is a good thing that people were honoring Edith Windsor this week. Her story was rather compelling. I’m going to resist the temptation to try to track down Nancy Gill to find out if she is jealous that it is not her name that is on the Supreme Court decision. I’ll continue to think that conservatives probably should have rolled over on DOMA to show consistency on the issue of states rights. Of course they don’t seem to be doing that on marijuana either. On another sad note, my friend Alan Jacobs also recently passed away. As I noted above he was giving me insight as I followed along.
Looking at it as an amateur historian, I have to say that the triumph of the gay rights movement with Windsor and Obergefell coming back to back in the lifetime of people such as Edith Windsor and my friend Alan Jacobs who had to be, as they used to say, “in the closet” in their youth is rather remarkable when compared to the struggle for racial and gender equality, which have much longer histories.
Gulf War Syndrome In Tax Court
Practical tip here. If you have income that is arguably taxable that you think is exempt, it is better if you file and claim the income as exempt. Two advantages. First, it cuts the penalty exposure. Second, and don’t tell anybody I was the one who told you, you are more likely to get away with it. If you pay homage to the IRS document matching computer gods, an actual human has to look at your return to assess you. If you just don’t file there is no need for human intervention in order to assess you. (That’s my impression anyway)
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.