IRS conformity bill gets 100% Senate OK

The annual IRS conformity bill that caused such a fuss in the House cleared the Senate Local Government & Taxation Committee this afternoon on a unanimous vote, but not until after several senators had shared misgivings about the final language in the bill. Sen. Grant Burgoyne, D-Boise, called the original version of the bill, which cleared a House committee but then was pulled back and changed, “the right thing to do.” It eliminated a 2014 clause from Idaho state law, referred to as Subsection C, requiring same-sex married couples to recalculate their federal income taxes so they could file separately in Idaho. The new version left that clause in, but added another section after it, Subsection D, essentially setting it aside for purposes of tax filings. “Subsection D in my opinion at least makes it clear that subsection C is inoperable,” Burgoyne said. “I wish we could have found the courage as a Legislature to delete Subsection C from the code entirely”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here .