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Taxing Times For Lesbians And Gay Men: Equality At What Cost?, Claire Fl Young
Taxing Times For Lesbians And Gay Men: Equality At What Cost?, Claire Fl Young
Dalhousie Law Journal
In this article I shall briefly review some of those struggles and the current state of the law. This forms the backdrop to an issue that I view as being of fundamental importance to lesbians and gay men in their fight for equality and which has not received much attention; that is the tax system. I shall focus on two aspects. First, I shall analyse the use of the tax system as a spending programme and a tool by which to subsidise particular activities. In this context I shall examine the federal government's refusal to recognise lesbian and gay relationships, …