{"id":1192,"date":"2012-08-27T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2012-08-27T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:37:09","slug":"german-courts-expand-tax-rights-for-gay-and-lesbian-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/08\/german-courts-expand-tax-rights-for-gay-and-lesbian-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"German Courts Expand Tax Rights For Gay And Lesbian Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany’s constitutional court has strengthened the rights of gay and lesbian couples, giving them a same tax benefit as heterosexual married couples.<\/p>\n

The ruling, which came Wednesday, comes as the country is mired in an escalating debate on the status of homosexual partnerships.<\/p>\n

The court ruled that gay couples who have entered into a “registered partnership,” the German legal phrase for relationships similar to marriage, must be exempted from the country’s land transfer tax just like straight married couples, according to a court news release.<\/p>\n

The verdict comes as Germany’s politicians are generally debating taxation for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n

Angela Merkel’s governing conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has traditionally been against tax equality for homosexual partnerships.<\/p>\n

But recently, 13 members of the party called for an expansion of tax rights for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n

The group wrote that it feels it is not acceptable that “politics time and again has to be ordered by the constitutional court to abolish inequalities.”<\/p>\n

Kristina Schroder, Germany’s minister for family affairs and also a member of the CDU, has signaled support for the push, saying, “the suggestion comes at exactly the right time. In homosexual partnerships, people take long-term responsibility for each other. They are living conservative values,” she told German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.<\/p>\n

However, more conservative members of the CDU have voiced concern about the matter, and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said at a recent news conference that he does not see an urgent need to revise the country’s tax laws.\u00a0 Read More <\/a><\/p>\n

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Germany’s constitutional court has strengthened the rights of gay and lesbian couples, giving them a same tax benefit as heterosexual married couples.<\/p>\n

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