Maryland begins to address unfair ‘gay tax’ inheritance issue
”You’re talking about a year of my son’s college education savings down the tubes…. I have no issue paying taxes but if you’re going to tax me, then please give me the same services you would give any other citizen.”
Michael Lacey of Montgomery County, MD, who lost his partner Ira Kaye in an automobile accident last year. Lacey testified that he had to pay $30,000 to stay in his own home with the couple’s adopted son, and that he forced to pay a tax that no other type of family member would have to pay. It is reported that the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee will bring to the full state Senate floor a bill that could provide same-sex partners equivalent inheritance rights as a legally married couple would receive. (Examiner.com)
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