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IRS Releases Instructions on how to Claim Homebuyer Tax Credit

Dennis Norman

If you are one of the million-plus homebuyers that was fortunate enough to qualify for the Home Buyer tax credit, read on for information on how to claim your credit.

Today the Internal Revenue Service released a new form that eligible homebuyers must need to use to claim the first-time homebuyer credit this tax season, [...]

Will you owe taxes on a short-sale or foreclosure?

Dennis Norman

Depending on which estimate you believe, somewhere between one-third and one-half of the homeowners with a mortgage in the U.S. owe more on their homes than their homes are currently worth. This has lead to an unprecedented amount of short-sales and in many cases, a lender “forgiving” you of the short-fall (the amount [...]

New updated info from IRS on Homebuyer Tax Credit

First-Time Homebuyer Credit Extended to April 30, 2010; Some Current Homeowners Now Also Qualify

WASHINGTON — A new law that went into effect Nov. 6 extends the first-time homebuyer credit five months and expands the eligibility requirements for purchasers.

The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 extends the deadline for [...]

First-time homebuyer credit provides tax benefits to 1.4 million familes to date according to the IRS

Dennis Norman

“I’m from the IRS and I’m here to help you.” 

Yeah, sure.   

Actually, in this case the IRS is trying to help.  The IRS has a website  and has even published a video on YouTube to help first-time buyers and potential buyers understand the first-time home buyer tax credit as well as how to claim [...]

IRS Warns Taxpayers to Beware of First-Time Homebuyer Credit Fraud

The Internal Revenue Service this week announced its first successful prosecution related to fraud involving the first-time homebuyer credit and warned taxpayers to beware of this type of scheme.

On Thursday July 23, 2009, a Jacksonville, Fla.-tax preparer, James Otto Price III, pled guilty to falsely claiming the first-time homebuyer credit on a client’s federal tax [...]

The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act

By:  Dennis Norman

Dennis Norman

Over the past few days I have heard stories of people that have lost their homes through foreclosure and then, as if that was not enough, were told by their tax preparer that they owed thousands of dollars in taxes for “forgiven debt”.

As bad as this sounds it is reality…or at least was reality.  Let [...]