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A US tax court has found in favour of a 65-year-old transsexual who challenged her right to deduct $5 000 of the $25 000 she spent on a gender reassignment operation.
WASHINGTON DC, United States - An American transsexual who was audited after deducting the cost of gender reassignment surgery when filing her taxes has won an appeal asserting the operation was a legitimate medical expense.
The city of Portland wants to expand its medical coverage for employees who want to get a sex change, a move that will cost $108,000 a year. The policy would cover all but 5 percent of the cost, which employees would pay out of pocket.
(AP:BOSTON) A woman who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for the costs of her sex-change operation says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people.
WASHINGTON: Costs incurred in sex-change operations and procedures are tax-deductible, the US Tax Court has ruled.
The city of Portland wants to expand its medical coverage for employees who want to get a sex change, a move that will cost $108,000 a year.
THE concept of a tax deduction has taken on a curiously physical dimension in a US court case.
A woman who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for thecosts of her sex-change operation says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people.
The U.S. Tax Court has ruled in favor of a Massachusetts taxpayer whose deduction for her sex change operation was rejected by the Internal Revenue Service.
A woman who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for the costs of her sex-change operation says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people. Rhiannon O'Donnabhain (oh-DON'-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service in 2007 after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for about $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery.
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