This course traces the history of filing statuses and how community property law was central to forcing Congress to create filing statuses, and how filing statues are still a thorny issue in tax law.
Learning Objectives
- Discover and understand the earliest form of taxation, from 1862.
- Explore how taxes worked when our current version of the tax code started in 1913.
- Explore how taxes changed once the U.S. entered World War I.
- Identify and understand the basics of community property law.
- Identify how community property law created a loophole in the tax law.
- Explore and understand the debate over how to tax married couples in the 1920s.
- Identify the key Supreme Court case (Poe vs. Seaborn) from 1930.
- Discover and understand how filing statuses worked when Congress created them in 1948.
- Identify key changes to tax law through the years after 1948 relating to filing statuses.
- Discover and understand how the marriage penalty works.
- Recognize and understand how tax law still creates oddities where sometimes married couples pay more in taxes, and sometimes less in taxes, by either getting married or by staying single.
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Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Foundational
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.
Education Provider Information
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Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA
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Jason DinesenInstructor