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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Tax Day extra difficult for many same-sex married couples (@stephenatap @AP)

For same-sex couples living in states that do not recognize same-sex marriage, filing taxes can get very complicated:

Full Article from the AP

"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."

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