Check out the New York Times’ story, “Potentially One Less Tax Penalty for Gay Couples” profiling the provision we’ve told you about in the House version of health care reform that would end the unfair taxation of domestic partner health benefits (similar benefits offered to married spouses are not taxed):
This also means that whenever today there is a way for a straight married couple to finance their health benefits on a pretax basis, an employee paying for the benefits of a domestic partner would be able to do the same pretax financing, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group.
The House’s legislation, which includes language from a bill titled the Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act, makes health insurance benefits for domestic partners (and adult children) tax-free if an employer offers them, excluding them from an employee’s gross income and bringing their taxation in line with that of health benefits provided to the spouse or dependents of an employee married to a person of the opposite sex.
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