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DALLAS — Former inmates who were wrongly convicted are welcoming an Internal Revenue Service ruling that means they’ll no longer have to pay taxes on compensation payments.
Some inmates say the old policy was like being cheated twice: They were wrongly imprisoned, and then the government that locked them up taxed them on the money they were paid to make amends.
The change in policy amounts to a massive savings for the wrongly convicted in Texas, which leads the nation with 40 DNA exonerations.
