Did the IRS intend to give same-sex couples a 50% Self-Employment Tax break?

Dan82 · Mar 26, 2011

http://class5tax.wordpress.com/2011...e-sex-couples-a-50-self-employment-tax-break/

With any luck, this will be my last post for awhile on the strange tax consequences of being a Registered Domestic Partner or same-sex spouse in a community property state. I think the multiple posts to this point cover the topic pretty exhaustively, at least for what you can really learn about a topic from blogs. (See here for the main overview, and here, here, and finally here.) More guidance is available in IRS Publication 555, but as we’re about to see, even that is lacking guidance in crucial areas, one in particular.

Also, the Class 5 Resources page has an updated worksheet to help RDPs/same-sex spouses in community property states (CA, NV, and WA) to correctly allocate their income and deductions for federal tax filing...

http://class5tax.wordpress.com/2011...e-sex-couples-a-50-self-employment-tax-break/
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Did the IRS intend to give same-sex couples a 50% Self-Employment Tax break?

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