THE TAX BURDEN OF BEING GAY OR LESBIAN
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
6:30PM - 9:00PM
The author of Amazon.com's current top-ranked business book is coming to Out Professionals Wednesday, January 16th- with a harsh message about how the tax codes affects gays and lesbians
Don't miss Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times journalist David Cay Johnston, author of just-published 'Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)'.
You'll hear him expose "the tax burden of being gay or lesbian"- and how the burden of filing "single" in today's tax code has been largely ignored by LGBT voters. This is a rare opportunity to hear about gay and lesbian financial issues from a giant in the world of business journalism.
FREE BAR WITH WINE & BEER, Socail Mixer from 6:30 to 7:30.
David, a veteran business writer for The New York Times, has single-handedly helped change tax law enforcement with hard-hitting stories on how the system really operates -- as opposed to how the government says it does.
Presented in collaboration with The New York Times Company GLBT & Allies Affinity Group, Out & Equal Metro New York Council, and NLGJA-NY.
Location: LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street
Program: Cocktail Mixer 6:30 to 7:30 with free open bar; Interview & Q&A 7:30 to 9:00
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In 1995, David Cay Johnston persuaded the editors of The New York Times to hire him to see if he could devise a new way to cover taxes, focusing on how the system operates rather than what politicians say about it. His work has resulted in shutting so many tax dodges, in pressing so many new laws and regulations and enforcement efforts that some tax policy officials now consider him, as one tax law professor put it, "the de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States." Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his running investigation of our tax system and was a finalist for that award in 2000 and in 2003.
David Cay Johnston's book, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else was named the 2003 Investigative Book of the Year by Investigative Reporters and Editors. Johnston's new book, Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill), published in January by Penguin/Portfolio, exposes hidden subsidies that take from the many to benefit the few.
We expect a capacity audience. Reservations are recommended.
