More US firms offer offset to compensate for discrimination against same-sex couples in tax code
Numerous major law firms have begun to offer a benefit for employees that enroll their same-sex partner in the firm’s health care plan. The benefit aims to offset federal, state and local income taxes paid on the value of the partners’ benefits which heterosexual spouses are not subject to. Legal blog Above the Law has been keeping tabs on who offers the benefit, and has compiled this list of major firms that are doing their part to ease the effects of discrimination against same sex couples: Bingham McCutchen BuckleySandler Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Cooley Debevoise & Plimpton Dickstein Shapiro Fenwick & West Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman Hogan Lovells Latham & Watkins Linklaters McCarter & English McDermott Will & Emery Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy Morrison & Foerster Munger Tolles & Olson O’Melveny & Myers Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Reed Smith Ropes & Gray Shearman & Sterling Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom SNR Denton Weil Gotshal & Manges Williams Mullen Winston & Strawn
More US firms offer offset to compensate for discrimination against same-sex couples in tax code
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Tue, Nov 1, 2011