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Jul 23, 2011, 10:56 am

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Originally Posted by FlyMeToTheLooneyBin

Well, it could go on as a tax credit, like they did for cell phone usage about five years ago.

The credit available then was for an overpaid excise tax on landlines, not cell phones. It was easier to process a credit that way than for the IRS to force people to file a Form 720, Claim for Refund, for relatively small dollars.

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Originally Posted by FlyMeToTheLooneyBin

This is just speculative.

Yes, it is.

There will be no credit on a tax return for this one.