N.C. Couple Refuse To Pay Taxes To Protest Gay Marriage Ban

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/01/013006taxProtest.htm

A Hendersonville, North Carolina same-sex couple is refusing to pay Federal and North Carolina Income Tax to protest the refusal of both levels of government to recognize them as a couple.

Merrill, a 71-year-old artist and gay activist says the protest will involve about million dollars worth of stock sales and income.

"I have no intention of paying Federal and State Income taxes because my same sex partner and I cannot be legally married and receive the same tax benefits as other married couples," Merrill said in a statement on Monday.

The IRS says it is legally bound by the Federal Defense of Marriage Act to treat same-sex partners as single. North Carolina also has a DOMA.

[BOSSHOG]

1. OUTSTANDING

Gays should start dumping the tea into harbors coast to coast. Equal protection under the constitution my ass.

GO MERRILL!!! (I'd make the letters bigger but I don't know how.)

Now lets have a constitutional amendment banning divorce. What God loving "christian" would object??

Who the fuck on this planet can define marriage to other human beings? "Christians" with hearts full of hate?


GO MERRILL, GO MERRILL, GO MERRILL .....

[JoshWatermanMN]

2. I have thought about this for some time

We need to have a nationwide, organized effort of civil disobedience to make this point stick. I will be happy to participate myself (I am in MN, as you can guess from my screen name. ;)

[sui generis]

3. good for them.

I hope they at least escrow what they would have paid as a legally married couple so they're not taken apart by failing the good faith test.

However, at 70, open an account in Lichtenstein, transfer it to a Cayman Islands offshore limited partnership, and drop it into a CIBC third party double signature business account and reinvest in the U.S. as a foreign entity.

If you want to do it legally there are actually a number of ways to thumb your nose at the IRS and state tax authority, provided you're willing to move your money and assets.

[BR_Parkway]

7. My partner and I own a business together - since we can't take the

marraige deductions, we simply rely on the business ones. Everytime we go out to eat, unlike a married couple, the gov't has decided that we are business partners for that meal (and we always talk about something at work). Any trips are strictly business research since, in the gov'ts eyes, we're only business partners. And so on. They really would make more money from us by recognizing our relationship the same as they do Billy-Bob & Mary-Sue down the road who managed to get knocked up in 10th grade and had to get married to keep from embarrasing their families (who all completely overlooked her 7 month's along bulging belly under that white wedding dress) Since they live with her folks during the week to go to school, then his folks on the weekend - it could get interesting if they get claimed as Married Filing Joint and Dependent at one house and Dependent at the other house.

[ruggerson]

4. This is great

and I hope it spreads. As others have noted, it needs to be an organized process with millions participating.

This type of thing needs to be our "Rosa Parks" moment. Although not paying taxes is not going to have the media appeal of refusing to give up a seat on a bus.

[xchrom]

5. alll-riiight!

way to go!
:applause: :applause: :applause:

[joeybee12]

6. No taxation without representation!

If you pay taxes like everyone else, you should get the same rights as everyone else.