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Advisers tackle tax filings for same-sex couples; Preparing is complicated, so returns can cost...

Byline: Rick Miller

CHICAGO - It was "a long tax season'' for financial advisers such as Debra Neiman who were involved in the first tax-filing season for married same-sex couples in Massachusetts.

"We had to create a few different sets of returns, some of which were filed and some of which went into the shredder,'' said Ms. Neiman, a certified financial planner who runs Neiman & Associates Financial Services LLC in Watertown, Mass.

For that reason, the returns for married gay and lesbian couples were generally more complicated, more time consumin

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