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Two straight best friends marry to avoid paying inheritance tax
Two Irish best friends, Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan, who are both heterosexual, 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.
“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.”
O’Sullivan was previously married to a woman. It is Murphy’s first marriage.
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