Tax Day poses unique challenges for many married, same-sex couples

[William769]

WASHINGTON — A necessary burden for most Americans, Tax Day is an accounting nightmare for thousands of gay and lesbian couples as they wrestle with the uneven legal status of same-sex marriage in the United States.

They live in a country that recognizes their marriages, but some reside in the 13 states that do not, an issue that will be argued before the Supreme Court later this month.

At tax time, and Wednesday is the filing deadline, it gets complicated because most state income tax returns use information from a taxpayer’s federal return.

Straight couples simply copy numbers from one form to another. But that doesn’t work for same-sex couples reporting combined incomes, deductions and exemptions on their federal tax returns. These couples must untangle their finances on their state returns, where they are still considered single.

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/04/tax-day-poses-unique-challenges-for-many-married-same-sex-couples/

[Bluenorthwest]

1. And yet some on DU tell me civil rights have nothing to do with finances at all, not at all.

One would almost think it's because they have spent their entire lives being treated fairly and can't even imagine being mugged on a tax form for a few decades. If those 'populists' had paid out what I have paid out unfairly over the years they'd spring an artery and stroke out.

[William769]

2. I have learned over the year's here

If they are not directly affected, it's meh. Remember the same sex marriage wars on why we should wait on our civil rights that everyone else enjoy's? I do.

With that said, I do want to point out that we have had a strong contingent of straight allies that made the other one's tolerable so to speak.

The money we all (LGBT) could have saved over the year's I guess went to help finance other people's Government program's. No no need to thank us. Don't mean to sound rude, but that's what happened.