Scott James, writing for the New York Times, January 14, 2011, headlines his piece “For Same-Sex Couples, a Tax Victory That Doesn’t Feel Like One.” He’s talking, of course, about the requirement that California, Washington, and Nevada RDPs must split…
On January 9, the LA Times published an article on the difficulty exoneree John Thompson and others have in holding prosecutors accountable for their actions. Read the article here.
Cornelius Dupree was lucky – the biological evidence in his case still existed and was available for DNA testing. Many others in his predicament aren’t so lucky, as Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins points out in a news story…
NCIP is celebrating the rulings in the cases of three innocent California men in three unrelated cases, all wrongful convictions, at least two the result of misconduct by police and prosecutors. Read about them here.
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Same Sex Tax Law Blog. Something important happened in December that I haven’t yet mentioned on this blog. Congress finally gave us some tax certainty by enacting the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance…
I know the new IRS Publication 17 (available online) appears to say that RDPs in California, Nevada, and Washington may choose to split their community income. But it isn’t really a choice. If it is community income, then the rule…
NCIP Client Maurice Caldwell’s conviction was overturned today in San Francisco. Read about the story here.
The Northern California Innocence Project’s ground-breaking study of prosecutorial misconduct in California was the topic of discussion on CNN with guests Barry Scheck and Jeffrey Toobin describing the report’s massive scope and significance. Toobin said the findings were "shocking." Watch…
Many taxpayers and their tax advisers are confused by the Internal Revenue Service’s apparent inconsistency regarding who can split community income on their federal tax returns. Some complain that they can find no binding authority to support the position that…
A common question on tax accounting blogs is who gets to claim the mortgage interest deduction when the home is jointly owned. Or, who gets to claim the property tax deduction? Given how often this question arises, it is surprising…