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Friday, September 20, 2013

Tax Expert: ‘Staying Unmarried Is the Tax Shelter for the Poor’

September 18, 2013 - By Penny Starr
Federal tax expert Gene Steuerle said at a discussion on low-wage workers on Tuesday at the Capitol that government social welfare programs penalize low-income people for being married.  “Staying unmarried is the tax shelter for the poor,” Steuerle, a fellow at the Urban Institute and former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax analysis in the Ronald Reagan administration, said at an event to release a survey commissioned by Oxfam America on low-wage workers in the United States.....ToRead More....

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