{"id":1241,"date":"2012-09-07T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2012-09-07T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:06:07","slug":"ca-state-senate-approves-bill-easing-property-tax-burden-for-gay-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/09\/ca-state-senate-approves-bill-easing-property-tax-burden-for-gay-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"CA State Senate Approves Bill Easing Property-Tax Burden For Gay Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because same-sex marriage is not legally recognized, gay and lesbian couples face numerous tax penalties not shared by their married heterosexual counterparts. One of the most distressing is the financial burden levied against them when their property changes hands after the death of a partner.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, California instituted certain protections that ensure a widow or widower wouldn\u2019t be subject to the usual change-in-ownership reassessment of property tax if they were taking over the deed after their spouse\u2019s death. (Similar protections exist for children and grandchildren.) To date same-sex couples haven\u2019t benefited from this exemption.<\/p>\n

But yesterday, the California State Senate passed AB 1700, which would equalize treatment of gay and straight couples in the transfer of property, by a margin of 34 to 1. The bill has already passed the Assembly, and now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just a boon for gays and lesbians: The measure would protect any non-married Californian homeowners from paying the stiff taxes assessed when property is sold outright\u2014siblings, straight unmarried couples, even friends. \u201cThis law protects co-owners of property who have purchased a home together and depend upon each other for financial support,\u201d says Assembly member Betsy Butler (D-53), who introduced the bill. \u201cIt is simply unfair to place an extra burden on homeowners who are not married when the death of a co-tenant endangers the ability of the survivor to stay in their home.\u201d\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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Because same-sex marriage is not legally recognized, gay and lesbian couples face numerous tax penalties not shared by their married heterosexual counterparts. One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}