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Stimulus Bill gives big breaks to individuals and businesses.
While the popular press publicized the big expenditures for infrastructure,
health, education, and energy, the tax portion of the Stimulus Bill (the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009) is wide-ranging. Signed into law on February 17, 2009, it includes
a number of breaks, including a sweetened homebuyer credit for 2009 purchases that can be
claimed on 2008 returns, tax-free unemployment compensation, extended depreciation breaks,
above-the-line deduction for car purchases, enhanced EIC and education credits, and much more.
Surprising IRS delays impacted the entire tax season.
Even though the major tax bills were passed much earlier last year
(no mid-December tax bills like the year before), and the IRS's posted schedule for release dates indicated
that nearly all forms would be released by the end of the year, the notorious delays of
last year were repeated by the IRS this year! As of January 5, nearly half the forms we support had yet to be released.
Shortly after that, the IRS announced further delays in the processing of most returns with business credits until late February,
and some were not released until early March.
Form 3468 (Investment Credit) was not released until the end of March, but included revisions from
the mid-February Stimilus Bill.
(The IRS revised Form 5405 shortly after the Stimulus Bill wass passed, but returns taking advantage of
the allowed 2008 deduction for 2009 purchases were not processed by the IRS until the end of March.)
HowardSoft responded to these mid-season delays with software updates within 1 to 2 days of IRS changes!
Tax Forms and More
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Click a level above for a list of features and forms built-in and
fully-automated for that level. And to make sure you're not left behind
at the beginning of the tax season,
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