Title
Tax Protest, A Homosexual, and Frivolity: A Deconstructionist Meditation
Abstract
In this contribution to a symposium entitled Out of the Closet and Into the Light: The Legal Issues of Sexual Orientation, I recount and then ponder the story of Robert Mueller. Mueller, a gay man, spent more than a decade protesting the discriminatory treatment of gays and lesbians under the Internal Revenue Code. As a result of his tax protest, Mueller was jailed for more than a year, and then was twice pursued by the IRS for taxes and penalties. In pondering Mueller's story, I consider it both as a telling example of the forcible closeting of gay and lesbian issues in tax and as a signpost pointing in the direction of the next front in the battle for gay rights.
Disciplines
Sexuality and the Law | Tax Law
Date of this Version
8-3-2004
Recommended Citation
Anthony C. Infanti, "Tax Protest, A Homosexual, and Frivolity: A Deconstructionist Meditation" (August 2004). University of Pittsburgh School of Law Working Paper Series. Working Paper 4.
https://law.bepress.com/pittlwps/art4
Comments
forthcoming in the Saint Louis University Public Law Review