Special treatment: Google Covers Tax for Gay Partner Benefits

But this offer is not extended to unmarried straights.   Therefore, if you are shacking up with a same sex partner, rather than an opposite sex partner,  you will get paid more for it at Google.

Gay Googlers to Get More | NBC Bay Area.

The justification is that straight couples  could dodge the tax by getting married, but gays cannot.

Look for changes in this after the spectre of Obamacare becomes reality.