William D King: A guide on who will benefit from the new income-tax bill and who will be hurt
President Obama on December 17. The bill is made up of two pieces of legislation. First, the temporary extension of the Bush-era income tax rates for two years along with other temporary provisions to make this extension revenue-neutral says William D King. It permanently extends the increased Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC), and other long-time tax credits that were included in 2009 stimulus legislation signed into law by former President George W. Bush. Who benefits from it? Most people will not be affected by this bill either way since they are already paying the rate that would have ended at the end of the year. This bill mostly affects those who earn over $200,000 a year as they will now see a slightly higher tax rate. Who gets hurt from it? For those who would have benefited from the lower income tax rates that were set to expire at the end of 2010, this bill is bad news as those people stand to pay more taxes in… Read More »William D King: A guide on who will benefit from the new income-tax bill and who will be hurt