Title	Taxing times for lesbians and gay men
Creator	Young, Claire
Contributor	Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued	2013
Description	Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law. This talk revisits the issue of including lesbians and gay men as spouses for tax purposes. It highlights existing concerns about this policy, including the fact that it results in a privatization of economic security within relationships. The lecture also considers the impact of changes to the income tax system that permit spouses to split income and concludes that these changes exacerbate existing inequalities and reinforce heteronormativity by rewarding the traditional family in which one spouse is the breadwinner and the other remains at home. The recommendation is that all tax rules that take spousal status into account be abolished and we return to the individual as the unit of taxation.
Subject	Lesbian; Gay; Policy; Economic security; Relationships; Tax; Tax system; Spuses; Income; Heteronormativity
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2013-11-05
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI	10.14288/1.0076750
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45451
Affiliation	Law, Faculty of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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