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A Symposium On Social Justice Feminism: Introduction, Emily Houh, Kristin (Brandser) Kalsem, Verna L. Williams
A Symposium On Social Justice Feminism: Introduction, Emily Houh, Kristin (Brandser) Kalsem, Verna L. Williams
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This special issue of the Freedom Center Journal, includes a set of truly diverse and interdisciplinary pieces, each individually interpreting and performing social justice feminism in original and unique ways. Collectively, these pieces demonstrate how SJF can be constructively employed across academic disciplines and through lived realities and, further, how SJF can be used to connect theory to our own individual and collective advocacy and activism.
What Innocent Spouse Relief Says About Wives And The Rest Of Us, Stephanie Mcmahon
What Innocent Spouse Relief Says About Wives And The Rest Of Us, Stephanie Mcmahon
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Every time spouses sign joint returns, knowingly or not they accept joint and several liability, meaning that either spouse may be held liable for all of the tax due on the joint return. Although joint and several liability facilitates tax collection, it may conflict with a spouse’s claims to have signed the return while being lied to, abused, or manipulated. The question for Congress is how to balance these competing demands. Innocent spouse relief provides some tax relief for spouses Congress does not believe should be jointly and severally liable. The existence of this relief also offers an opportunity to …