I just posted this in response to someone's question about small business in another section, but it made me wonder how many GLBT DUers here are in business and how you handle your various State and Federal rules?
One of the biggest reasons we run our own show is that we're pretty unlikely to fire ourselves for being gay - in a state that would be perfectly legal to do so.
Since the State and Feds have absolutely said that my relationship with my business (and life) partner can not be looked at as anything the resembles marriage, then every time we go out to eat, it's a business meeting - and we damn sure deduct it in complete accordance with the law. Same for any 'team building' business trips we take together. I can't see that as tax cheating when these laws were passed to specifically say that the government won't recognize us as anything else because we're not 'one man, one woman'
Someday, when those inequities are cleared up and we're treated like full citizens - I plan on writing folks like James Dobson and the other professional haters to let them know how their tax dollars subsidized my 'sinful' life.
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