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Financial advisor Suze Orman teamed up with Ernst & Young tax executives to look at the financial pitfalls of DOMA, and to encourage same-sex couples to move to states that have already legalized and recognize gay marriage.

Getting your taxes done is a daunting prospect, moreso for LGBT couples trying to negotiate the pitfalls of a complicated web of state and federal laws that bestow upon us all of the penalties, but none of the benefits.

Although the U.S. incentivizes marriage with lower tax rates, insurance benefits and property rights, these benefits have not been extended to LGBT couples.

Tax season has reminded a number of gay couples that they are treated as second class citizens despite being legally married because the federal government forces them to file their federal income taxes as individuals.

Pakistanis who fail to pay up on tax day might find a posse of transgender tax collectors at their door--a form of "enforcement" that relies less on muscle than on local attitudes regarding sexual minorities, attitudes that spell humiliation for scofflaws whom the trans tax collectors target.

Your columnist raps about tax inequity, free speech, and Turbo Tax. Happy Tax Day--one more occasion when the Federal government requires us to lie.

The "can’t get married" penalty isn’t just a Tax Day problem: For same-sex couples, the burden is a daily reminder of their lack of equality before the law.

For the third straight year, American families and businesses will pay less in federal taxes than they did under former President George W. Bush, thanks to a weak economy and a growing number of tax breaks for the wealthy and poor alike.

The No. 2 House Republican is showing little wiggle room on tax cuts going into a critical meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama.

The White House and Republican lawmakers set the terms for a looming tax debate Sunday, coalescing around a possible temporary extension of existing income tax rates that would protect middle class and wealthy Americans from sharp tax increases next year.