Should unmarried people have the same rights as married ppl?

[Antebellum South]

Heterosexual married couples enjoy certain financial benefits such as exemptions from the inheritance tax. This is one of the rights and benefits of marriage in the US fought for by homosexual couples. However, unmarried people are unable to transmit their assets to other individuals without gigantic inheritance tax penalties. Do you believe inheritance tax cuts should be extended to unmarried people? Do you believe it is right to use government legislation to create economic pressure against the single and/or unmarried life?

Sorry for the abbreviation in the thread title.. space limitations.

[Galloism]

Heterosexual married couples enjoy certain financial benefits such as exemption from the inheritance tax.

No they don't. They do get certain bonuses and exemptions, but that one ain't one of em.

[Antebellum South]

Fixed.

[Gauntleted Fist]

Heterosexual married couples enjoy certain financial benefits such as exemption from the inheritance tax.

No they don't. They do get certain bonuses and exemptions, but that one ain't one of em.

I don't think anyone gets exempted from that tax.

[Galloism]

Fixed.

Poll lacks a "Wtf?" option.

[Galloism]

I don't think anyone gets exempted from that tax.

Under current law, $3.5 million this year. Any estate worth less than that doesn't even have to fill out the form.

[Gauntleted Fist]

Under current law, $3.5 million this year. Any estate worth less than that doesn't even have to fill out the form.

My statement could have been worded better, yes.

[Galloism]

Under current law, $3.5 million this year. Any estate worth less than that doesn't even have to fill out the form.

My statement could have been worded better, yes.

Well, I just factually correct things out of habit.

By the way, that doesn't change regardless of marital status of the deceased or the recipient, so I have no idea what this thread is about.

[Farnhamia Redux]

Under current law, $3.5 million this year. Any estate worth less than that doesn't even have to fill out the form.

My statement could have been worded better, yes.

Well, I just factually correct things out of habit.

By the way, that doesn't change regardless of marital status of the deceased or the recipient, so I have no idea what this thread is about.

Good point. When you inherit something from your spouse, you are - not even technically - single.

[Galloism]

Good point. When you inherit something from your spouse, you are - not even technically - single.

Technically, you're married until the end of the year in which your spouse died.

WTF thing of the day:

If your spouse dies in the middle of the year, you can consider yourself married to your spouse for the whole year, and file a joint tax return. You must write "Deceased" in the signature line.

If your spouse dies and you get remarried before the end of the year, you are considered married to your new spouse for filing purposes, but your dead spouse is still considered married to you. Therefore, you should file married filing joint with your new spouse, while the dead one has to file married filing separately - not single.

This is the only case where one spouse can itemize deductions without affecting the tax return of the other spouse. If you itemize, then your dead spouse must also itemize. However, if your dead spouse itemizes, you do not have to itemize.

Ah, I love discussing tax law in the morning.

[Cameroi]

pretty much, and i think they mostly do. depends on which rights in what context we're talking about.
this is one of those places where what rights are right is massively context dependent.

rights to name beneficiaries, rights to have sex between consenting adults, rights to share living arrangements. sure. visitation rights under unusual conditions; well sometimes there's a real extreme need for some sort of filtering.

i guess it depends on what part of what world we're talking about too.

in some mundane world places rights ARE almost exactly the same, and in others they are extremely different.

[Dolbri]

Good point. When you inherit something from your spouse, you are - not even technically - single.

Technically, you're married until the end of the year in which your spouse died.

WTF thing of the day:

If your spouse dies in the middle of the year, you can consider yourself married to your spouse for the whole year, and file a joint tax return. You must write "Deceased" in the signature line.

If your spouse dies and you get remarried before the end of the year, you are considered married to your new spouse for filing purposes, but your dead spouse is still considered married to you. Therefore, you should file married filing joint with your new spouse, while the dead one has to file married filing separately - not single.

This is the only case where one spouse can itemize deductions without affecting the tax return of the other spouse. If you itemize, then your dead spouse must also itemize. However, if your dead spouse itemizes, you do not have to itemize.

Ah, I love discussing tax law in the morning.

After reading this, I think I prefer the smell of napalm.

[Galloism]

After reading this, I think I prefer the smell of napalm.

*sucks the fun out of the room*

[South East Europe]

We really don't need another thread when there is already an active thread on this forum discussing the same exact issue.

[Dyakovo]

We really don't need another thread when there is already an active thread on this forum discussing the same exact issue.

There is? Where?