It’s Almost Tax Day: Should Same Sex Couples Amend Their Prior Tax Returns?
Following the Supreme Court’s June, 2013 decision in Windsor, the IRS and the Treasury Department ruled that same-sex couples, legally married in jurisdictions that recognize their marriages, would be treated as married for federal tax purposes. The ruling applies regardless of whether or not the couple lives in a jurisdiction that recognizes marriages of same-sex […]
Now that Tax Day has Passed, Should Same Sex Married Couples Amend Prior Tax Returns?
What was so special about Tax Day for some married couples? Yesterday, the final day to file 2013 tax returns without an extension, thousands of legally married same sex couples filed federal income tax returns using either the “married filing jointly” or “married filing separately” filing status for the very first time. This is because, […]
Love and Taxes
As followers of Freed Marcroft’s Facebook page are well aware, this week the United States Supreme Court is set to hear arguments of two landmark cases impacting the rights of same sex couples in America — Hollingsworth v. Perry on Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative in California, and Windsor v. United States on the federal Defense of Marriage […]
