The issue of taxes was used to address the tax amount that people that had same sex marriages had to pay.
The couple were denied their tax exemption in the year 2009 because the Federal DOMA statute had ruled that there could be discrimination on these people based on Federal benefits.
The supreme court had to rule in the year 2013 that this ruling was not in accordance with the constitution of Due process.
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