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AMT Changes for 2008 and 2009

May 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The IRS posted on its website yesterday a complete breakdown of the changes in the Alternative Mininmum Tax for tax years 2008 and 2009.
I have republished it here in its entirety:
2008 Changes
The following changes to the AMT went into effect for 2008. For more information, see Form 6251, Alternative Minimum Tax –Individuals, and its instructions.
AMT [...]

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Tags: Alternative Minimum Tax · News

House Approves Stimulus Bill, But Where is AMT Fix?

January 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

USA-Tax-News.Com reported today that, Â
Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has criticized the version of the economic recovery legislation released by the House Ways and Means Committee last week for leaving out provisions that would curtail the reach of the alternative minimum tax for another year.
“The tax bill released by the [...]

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Tags: Alternative Minimum Tax · Legislative Watch

ReformAMT Group Wins, Gets Stock Option AMT Relief included in Bailout Bill

November 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Here is the headline that ReformAMT ran the day President Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008:
OCTOBER 3, 3:15pm (EST)
FINALLY, IT’S OVER!!!
And this is from the Wall Street Journal’s Scott Thurm by way of TaxProf Blog’s Paul Caron:Â
The recent $700 billion rescue package to bolster the financial system also threw a lifeline to [...]

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Tags: Alternative Minimum Tax · Legislative Watch

Tempo di Dire Arrivederci to the AMT

August 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The unintended, absurd tax quirks brought about by the application of the Alternative Minimum Tax in the 39 years of its rocky existence are too numerous to describe. But suffice it to say, the AMT has done more than any single tax provision in history to contribute to the tax code’s suffocating complexity and unwieldiness.

In [...]

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