Married same-sex couples will be treated the same as opposite-sex couples for tax purposes, the Obama administration announced Thursday, regardless of where they live now. The Treasury Department, following up on the Supreme Court's ruling in June striking down a key section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, announced that gay and lesbian married couples can file joint federal tax returns. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia permit same-sex couples to marry. Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay-rights group, said same-sex families "finally have access to crucial tax benefits and protections previously denied to them under the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act."
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