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At Long Last, A Permanent Patch for A Dreaded Tax
The Alternative Minimum Tax has threatened the middle class for decades. Now it won't. Score one for the fiscal cliff deal.
The Many Ways Your Taxes Could Go Up in 2013 (Even If You’re Not Rich)
The No 1 issue on Capitol Hill these days is the socalled "fiscal cliff" or the set of tax increases and spending cuts that will go into effect Jan 1 2013 A...
Buffett Rule Shares Flaw with Tax it Would Replace
Say goodbye to the much-loathed Alternative Minimum Tax and hello to the Buffett Rule. Sweet relief. The AMT has perplexed taxpayers and agonized accountants for...
The Democrat Hedge
Somewhere on Wall Street there is a hedge-fund manager ruing the day he gave money to a Democrat in 2006. On Nov. 9, the House passed a plan that would raise...
The Dems' Tax (and Spend) Dilemma
Congressional Democrats must feel a little disoriented by the emerging battle over how to pay for this year's fix for the Alternative Minimum Tax. The party that...
Income Taxes: Costly Alternatives
April 15 is still several months away, but a little-known provision is looming ever larger: the alternative minimum tax. Although Democrats and Republicans are...
The New Tax Trap
Tax reform is on the national agenda again. Yet no one is doing anything about the most dreaded levy of them all: the alternative minimum tax. You have probably...
Money: Taxed by Surprise
Tucked inside the 2005 budget from the Bush Administration is a proposal that may prompt you to sigh with relief if you have feared being hit with the...
What You Need to Know As Tax Time Rolls Around
Every year the tax code changes, at least slightly, and last year was no exception. Here are the most significant recent developments that should figure into...
Why the Fiscal Cliff May Cost You $6,000 in 2013
You can't turn on the television or open a magazine these days without hearing the term "fiscal cliff." The media is awash with reports of President Obama and...
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Numbers to Know When You File Your 2012 Tax Return
Deductions, exemptions, the AMT and more: numbers to know when you file your 2012 tax return ...
I. R. S.'s Taxpayer Advocate Calls for a Tax Code Overhaul
In her annual report to Congress, Nina E. Olson suggested repealing the alternative minimum tax and reducing so-called tax expenditures -- income exclusions, deductions and...
IRS: 100M taxpayers face delays without AMT fix
adjust the alternative minimum tax by the end of the year. ...
AMT could keep 60 million taxpayers from filing returns till March, delaying refunds
restrain the alternative minimum tax, the head of the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday. Read full article>> ...
