How the U.S. tax code disadvantages Black Americans CBSVillage
America has a major racial wealth gap that is driven in part by the way the federal tax code is written, according to a law professor who has spent her career documenting racism in the tax system.
"What the tax law does every April 15th is see to it that Black Americans pay higher taxes than their White peers because Black and White Americans engage in the same activity, but tax law impacts differently because we bring our racial identities onto our tax forms," Brown told CBS News' Tanya Rivero and Tony Dokoupil.Differences in how married couples are taxed, versus singles, is one way in which Black families end up disadvantaged, according to Brown.
How is race involved? Census bureau data show that White, married couples are more likely to have a stay-at-home spouse and get a tax cut, whereas in Black married couples, both partners are more likely to be wage earners, and therefore pay higher taxes. "I'm doing my parents' taxes and I'm making more money than they are and I'm supposed to be paying a lot more in taxes than they are and I'm not. And I can't figure it out," she said."It wasn't until I became a law professor and had the luxury of time that I stumbled into the answer. My parents were paying so much in taxes because they were married to each other.
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