We can all add Germany to the list of anywhere-but-here places to move for equal rights.
Germany’s highest court yesterday ruled a law which makes same-sex couples in civil partnerships pay higher inheritance tax is unconstitutional, Reuters reports.
“The Federal Constitutional Court said there were no legal grounds for taxing gay people who lost their partner differently from heterosexual married couples, and gave the government until 2011 to compensate those subject to the previous rules.”
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