Posted on 02/28/2006 10:16:20 AM PST by NormsRevenge
California's registered domestic partners should report their pay on federal tax forms the way single people do, rather than using methods available to married couples, according to an internal memo the Internal Revenue Service released Monday.
The clarification is the first guidance from the IRS in the wake of a sweeping state law that took effect in 2005, giving gays and lesbians many of the rights of married couples.
The news should ease the confusion facing the state's 71,000 partners with the April 17 tax-filing deadline just weeks away. But the federal agency's response wasn't the answer that gay and lesbian activists wanted to hear, because it does not recognize the property rights California's domestic partners have under state law.
In short, IRS lawyers determined that a 1930 Supreme Court decision that entitles married couples to divide their incomes cannot be extended to the state's domestic partners because they're not married. For example, if one partner earns $100,000 but a stay-at-home partner earns nothing, that's what they'd report on their respective federal returns -- rather than $50,000 each.
``The good news here is we actually have instructions on what to do. That alone is better than no response at all,'' said Frederick Hertz, an Oakland tax attorney and co-author of ``A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples.'' ``What is bad news is it signals a lack of recognition for the community property rights of domestic partners.''
The memo was dated Friday, the day after a Mercury News report described how tax experts were divided over the basic question of how to report income since California's Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act took effect in 2005.
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Of course not, you only complain about republicans.
Has nothing to do with Tom. It has everything to do with all of the PRo-GLBT legislation getting passed and those who seem to think it is AOK.
Well of course it doesn't, he's no longer useful to you.
As for your new gay association tactic...enjoy it.
You are correct.
It doesn't take a genius to see their next moves. They gain rights through getting legislation passed that doesn't seem, as some say, "that important" (insurance, pension, property, etc.) and then get anti-discrimination Civil Rights Acts passed to protect them. Now, they will challenge why federal law is discriminating against them and violating their "Civil Rights." Those that don't see this are either not looking or ignorant, or they are Trojan Horses supporting the homosexual agenda, imo.
That's absolutely correct.
Democrats are like children. They need constant attention and guidance.
Republicans are tasked to be the adults. Their purpose is the guide the children into a safe, adult harbor.
When Republican Party officials and their elected representatives begin behaving as children, as has been happening since the Wilsonegger gang coopted the CRP, then complaints need to come loud and fast. And they are, in public, offered by several ex-CRP chairman.
Responsible adults clean up their own house first and then can complain about the neighbor's slovenly ways if they choose.
Leave the key board. Go to the master bath. Stand in front of the wash basin. Look into the mirror and ask: Is my house clean?
Bump!
Which is why such groups always have to be defeated early and often. What is sought under the claim of "civil rights" is in reality "preferential rights".
If you, as a representative of the ilk, attempt to provide guidance to the demoncraps, the children in your goofy analogy, these other 'children' will rebel. Your ineffective 'guidance' will be such a ridiculous caricature will be such that even the 'children' of your own fold will rebel. But then again, as ilk, this is your goal, rebellion, dissent, division, et-al.
Is my house in order? I think not! I think that the inmates are running the asylum and the adults don't care as long as victory is in the wind.
Please take some good news and some bad news back to the bosses:
The good news: If the CRP can force the gang to confess, repent of their liberal ways and return to the fold, conservatives may support them in November.
The bad news: The CRP can't prevail in November without conservative support.
Please also take back a private message from forum members -- Sending party operatives to a conservative forum to challenge and insult long held, traditional, conservative beliefs isn't going to help the CRP's cause.
The November election is the CRP's to loose but they can't win without our support and we won't support a liberal. The ball is in the CRP's court. What will they do?
Your disingenuous vote isn't expected, nor needed. The ilk are going to have a hard time threatening us anymore. For each of you that stays home in resentment there will be two wishywashy votes from the middleground to replace you. Not that I think you'd ever vote for a republican, though.
I agree with your characterization. I can compare it to sports. You may spend all year evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, and tactics of your opponent, but when it comes down to it, there is one essential thing critical to success and that is a strong team of your own. You will spend your time, practicing, conditioning, and nurturing the health of your own team. If players are injured, you will try to heal them, and if not successful, they will be on the bench or off the team.
The argument that we should ignore and not talk about the injuries for fear of harming our own team is ridiculous. The injury is within and cannot be ignored. It can only be healed with constant treatment and attention, or in some cases acknowledging that the condition is terminal and making the necessary corrections.
The left estimates that the gang will need 85% support from Republicans in November to prevail. Weintraub cites that they got 70% in 2003, which is questionable. While Weintraub is optimistic about the 85% he postulates necessary in November, he didn't mention that they got only an estimated 50% in 2005. Ad hominem attacks on conservatives isn't going to change that trend.
The CRP must have support from conservatives to elect their liberal and it's not coming without some large concessions from the gang. Add to this the increasingly obvious scenario, which Weintraub never addressed; that conservatives would actively work to undermine an unrepentant gang, and the picture for the CRP gets even cloudier.
Yes, unfortunately, whether the CRP will admit it or not, conservatives hold the key to the gang's victory or defeat. We're essential for victory and our continued alienation will assure defeat. Need proof. Just count the operatives that the CRP has dispatched to this forum in recent weeks to cajole the impressionable and smear the vetran ideologues. Fortunately, many Freepers and a surprising amount of lurkers are familiar with the 5 operatives and their partisan agenda.
Figures you'd use 'the left' estimates. Without the middleground we're lost. Anyway, within the remaining 15%, a tenth of them are your ilk herd, who cares? Let 'em take their ball and go home. I'm bored with their impotent threats.
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