Georgia's tax exemption for fetuses comes with a host of questions

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This year, Georgia residents can claim a new — but potentially confusing — tax break: a $3,000 deduction for a fetus.

After the Supreme Court overturned women's federal right to obtain an abortion last summer, Georgia released guidance clarifying that state residents can claim the dependent exemption if they have an unborn child with a detectable heartbeat on or after July 20, 2022, for the upcoming tax season.

But the relatively short guidance left Georgia taxpayers with some unanswered questions on issues such as pregnancy loss, medical documentation, privacy issues, and who is eligible to take the deduction, all of which could inform how other states recognize fetal personhood when it comes to taxes.

"I don't think even the legislators who voted for it thought that this would become the law," Fred Smith Jr., a law professor at Emory University’s School of Law, told Yahoo Finance. "And that may help explain why there are so many unknowns, not just with respect to taxes, but across the tax code."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/georgias-tax-exemption-for-fetuses-comes-with-a-host-of-questions-203650912.html

[Timeflyer]

1. This would be funny, if it wasn't about the serious issue of women's bodily autonomy.

[Demovictory9]

2. Right now over 50% of counties in Georgia do not have an obstetric professional. They do not have an

Right now over 50% of counties in Georgia do not have an obstetric professional. They do not have an ob-gyn in the county,"

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Would a rapist be able to make such claim

for the deduction?