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Joint assessment taxation

  • 24-06-2010 7:31am
    #1
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭


    Has there ever been a challenge to the practice of joint assessment only being granted to married couples? I would think it violates the constitution in regards to protecting the family unit and freedom of religion.


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  • #2
    Hooch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    k_mac wrote: »
    Has there ever been a challenge to the practice of joint assessment only being granted to married couples? I would think it violates the constitution in regards to protecting the family unit and freedom of religion.

    I would hazard a guess it backs up protecting the family unit........in the eyes of the state you are a family unit when married. Not living together unmarried. Just my thoughts.


  • #3
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    I would think it hinders the family unit. A young couple with a child are severely disadvantaged. They do not have the same freedom as a married couple do to have one parent stay at home with the child. It is actually a deterrent to having a family out of wedlock.


  • #4
    Hooch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    k_mac wrote: »
    I would think it hinders the family unit. A young couple with a child are severely disadvantaged. They do not have the same freedom as a married couple do to have one parent stay at home with the child. It is actually a deterrent to having a family out of wedlock.

    I'm not disagreeing with you.....im just saying thats the way the state has always seen it...


  • #5
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    nice guy always wrote: »
    I'm not disagreeing with you.....im just saying thats the way the state has always seen it...

    Yes I think your right. I'm lookin for the case law that supports that.


  • #6
    NOIMAGINATION
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭NOIMAGINATION


    k_mac wrote: »
    Has there ever been a challenge to the practice of joint assessment only being granted to married couples? I would think it violates the constitution in regards to protecting the family unit and freedom of religion.

    How does it violate freedom of religion?


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  • #7
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    NOIMAGINATION wrote: »
    How does it violate freedom of religion?

    Marraige is a religious institution. At least in this country it is.

    I've been told that the new cohabitation laws coming in will allow for joint assessment for couples.


  • #8
    NOIMAGINATION
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭NOIMAGINATION


    k_mac wrote: »
    Marraige is a religious institution. At least in this country it is.

    I've been told that the new cohabitation laws coming in will allow for joint assessment for couples.

    If marriage was only a religious institution in Ireland, then they wouldn't offer civil ceremonies, that forbid any mention of religion in them.

    This may have been true in the past but it isn't anymore.


  • #9
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    NOIMAGINATION wrote: »
    If marriage was only a religious institution in Ireland, then they wouldn't offer civil ceremonies, that forbid any mention of religion in them.

    This may have been true in the past but it isn't anymore.

    The prohibition on gay marraige is based purely on religion.


  • #10
    NOIMAGINATION
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭NOIMAGINATION


    k_mac wrote: »
    The prohibition on gay marraige is based purely on religion.

    The prohibition on gay marriage, much like the prohibition on abortion is based on societal feeling, which unfortunately is still routed in the prejudices of the catholic church - most laws reflect public feeling, it just so happens that in Ireland public feeling also reflects that of the church.

    Marriage has moved on greatly and I'm sure the fact that you don't have to be married in a church or by religious ceremony anymore would defeat any claim of a violation of religious freedom.


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