The Build Back Better Act would let same-sex couples file an amended tax return for years they were legally married before 2010. - NBCOUT
, in 2003, after its Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state constitution gives gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. The U.S. Supreme Court later legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, in 2015, in Obergefell v. Hodges.)
“This is a fair thing to do,” said Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “People were married [but] the federal government wasn’t recognizing their marriages.” Same-sex couples who’d benefit most from new rules would likely be those in which one spouse is a high earner and the other has little to no income, Levine said., which is most common when each spouse earns a similar income.
That basically meant married couples jumped into that tax rate more easily with respect to their income.
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