NY Attorney is suing the IRS to claim her dog as dependant

Amanda Reynolds has filed a lawsuit on behalf of herself and Finnegan Mary Reynolds, her golden retriever, in a bid force the IRS to recognize pets as dependents. The suit, filed in the Eastern District of New York, claims that not recognizing non-human dependents 'violates constitutional guarantees of Equal Protection under the Fourteenth Amendment and, simultaneously, protections against arbitrary wrongful takings under the Fifth Amendment.' — Read the rest
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