Married Same Sex Couples – Windsor Decision Requires Action This Tax Season
The calculator does not address situations like that. The calculator does not even address the possiblity that Robin has capital losses and Terry has capital gains. If your affairs are at all beyond plain vanilla, you will need to set up both returns in full in order to make a sound judgment.
Fertility Treatment – Is IRS Heteronormative Or Just Muddled ?
.the IRS and the Tax Court are operating with a heteronormative, marriage-centric understanding of natural or normal reproduction, what qualifies medical and who makes an appropriate parent. This set of norms drove the IRS and the Tax Court to conclude in Magdalin that a deduction was not permissible—not because of any command in the doctrine, but rather because the taxpayer in that case did not fit the IRS’s and the Tax Court’s understanding of who a proper parent is
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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.