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CCH's Highlights of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is a convenient vehicle for alerting clients to the new tax provisions provided under this economic stimulus bill. For individuals, this legislation includes a Making Work Pay Credit based on earned income, with a $250 economic stimulus payment to Social Security recipients and disabled veterans; an AMT patch for 2009; extension of the first-time homebuyer credit to September 1, 2009, with the repayment obligation eliminated for 2009 purchases; a $3,000 floor on the refundable Child Tax Credit; a $2,500 American Opportunity Tax Credit that is 40 percent refundable; suspension of income tax on up to $2,400 of unemployment benefits for 2009; expansion of eligible expenses for 529 plans to include computers and related technology; an above-the-line deduction for taxes related to the purchase of a new automobile; an increase in the credit for nonbusiness energy property from $500 to $1,500 and a modification of standards;  removal of the dollar limits on the credit for residential energy efficient property for fuel cell property; an increase in the credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property; and a general re-write of the plug-in electric drive motor vehicle credit, including elimination of dollar caps, a new credit for two or three wheel and low-speed plug-in vehicles, and allowing a credit for conversion kits.

On the business side, provisions include extending bonus depreciation and increased 179 expensing through 2009; up to five-year carryback of net operating losses; expansion of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit to cover unemployed veterans and disconnected youth; deferral of cancellation of indebtedness income; an increased exclusion amount for commuter transit benefits and transit passes; an increase in the capital gain exclusion percentage for qualified small business stock; and reduction to seven years for the S Corporation built-in gain holding period. The legislation also includes a number of new or enhanced bond provisions aimed at economic recovery and alternative energy.

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