dorothy brown says quote, i've never been so wrong about something in my life.er getting her law degree and then her masters in tax law, brown was helping her parents with their taxes when she noticed something odd. they were married, but they didn't seem to benefit from the tax breaks that one should expect to see from a married couple. dorothy brown dug in, and quickly discovered that the irs does not collect or published data for race the same way they do for gender or for age. that caused ground to begin to dig deeper, and deeper. she says she became a detective, looking at the history of different tax laws. she looked at who benefits from most tax breaks in lupus, and who doesn't. take her parents marriage, for example. marriage tax cuts only benefits single wage earner households or couples where one worker makes significantly more than the other. so for example, a household where both make -- they're not going to get the tax cut, and as it turns out, households with equal earners that have to full-time workers, they're more likely to be black. by contrast