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Jul 24, 2011, 9:32 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dgreen12

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.

Uhh.... No. It was for landlines and cell phones.

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/...164032,00.html

Further, depending on how much LD you did during the refundable time-frame, you could've netted a $100+ dollars like I did. (Yes, I was able to produce all statements for the applicable time period thanks to Verizon and Nextel for sending me statement copies gratis.)