Scott objects to IRS marriage change

The House Revenue & Taxation Committee has voted 13-3 to approve the annual IRS tax conformity bill, but only after an unsuccessful move to kill the bill was launched by Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, who objected to including a change regarding same-sex married couples. This year’s conformity bill, which matches Idaho’s definition of adjusted gross income to that of the Internal Revenue Code, also deletes a section Idaho added to its tax law in 2014 after same-sex married couples were allowed under federal tax laws to file joint returns; that section required Idaho same-sex couples to essentially recalculate their taxes and file separately for their state returns, because the state at that time didn’t recognize same-sex marriage/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here .