Two Irish men have married in Dublin to avoid paying €50,000 in inheritance tax on a house.
Best friends Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan are both heterosexual, but decided to get married when they discovered how much tax would have to be paid on the house Murphy, 83, intended to leave in his will to O’Sullivan, 58, who is his carer.
Same-sex marriage was legalised in Ireland following a referendum in May 2015.
“I’ve known Matty for 30 years. We became very friendly after my second relationship broke up,” O’Sullivan, a father of three, told the Irish Mirror.
“I have been bringing Matt out in my car to various parties and all that kind of thing. He became friends with all my friends, they all loved him.”
Each man went through some tough times, with O’Sullivan becoming homeless and Murphy suffering from giant cell arteritis, which affects the optic nerve.
“I stayed over with him for a while and eventually Matt said ‘Why don’t you come and stay here?’ I would go over and stay with him the odd time but never full time.”
Murphy could not afford to pay O’Sullivan as a carer. “Eventually Matt said the only way he could pay me was to leave me the house. He said he would give me the house so I have somewhere to live when he goes.”
However, O’Sullivan knew that would mean a huge tax bill and the house would have to be sold to pay it. He said Murphy “was chatting a friend down the country in Cashel, Co Tipperary, and she jokingly said we should get married.
“Then one night he turned around and said it to me and I said I would marry him.”
ht/ moe tom
GOOD ON ‘EM!!!
Just a good business partnership.
phuck the libtards w/ their own regulations … that’s the way to fight back
you want to play this tune … well then, let’s dance
… hoisted upon their own petards ….
It’s not a legal marriage until consummation takes place.
The poor fellas don’ unnerstan’ that they need to consummate the relationship on their wedding night….wit witnesses!….Jes ask the widow O’Brian….
The window O’Brian, she was there…
All dressed in pink…
Several lads looked on with glee….As she made there fingers stink…
It does me heart good to see people phuck the govt. out of 50,000 quid! Or so someone told me. 🙂
They better hope the government doesn’t force them to consumate. One has to be the pitcher and one the catcher.
Nice; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom outfits
Brilliant!! That’s a better love story than a lot of marriages, straight or gay. I’ve supported ‘civil unions’ for years for just this sort of situation. Friends, siblings, partners of various sorts should be able to share expenses and deductions in life and to leave their estates to some beloved without the state imposing one final tax on the gays, the childless, the bachelors & spinsters, hermits, and loners.
Willy goatstuff,,,Who witnessed your consummation of marriage?
Why Tom Moe….it was me. I had to be there for the whole event…
PS: They’re not screwing the gubment out of 50,000 quid. It’s Murphy’s house. O’Sullivan is caring for him for free. Murphy wants to leave the house to O’Sullivan. The gubment wants to feckin tax these GIFTS between friends –because they’re NOT screwing each other. Screw inheritance tax.
So what are Patrick FitzGerald and Gerald FitzPatrick up to now?
Inheritance tax is total horseshit.
A government created lien against your assets. So the sex stops? How… novel.
It’s been done:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360032/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4
The most important question…who made the cake?
It was consumated when they screwed the government
The Immutable Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.
This makes me want to wander aimlessly in a pasture, kicking horse turds. Way too weird no matter the objective.
Good for them.
I hope this spreads throughout Ireland – and every Irishman decides to keep what’s his and shield it from the greedy gov’t maggots.
Free Ireland!
izlamo delenda est …
The kleptocrats in Brussels are already working on closing this loophole.