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Alternative Minimum Tax

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Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
A federal tax aimed at ensuring that wealthy individuals, estates, trusts, and corporations pay a minimal level income tax. For individuals, the AMT is calculated by adding adjusted gross income to tax preference items.

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* A "fix" for the Alternative Minimum Tax problems will have to await the 110th Congress
The likely proposed course of action: raise taxes on the upper brackets to produce enough revenue to eliminate the alternative minimum tax increases now hitting upper middle class taxpayers, most of them in the Northeast.
The AICPA said it backs the Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal Act of 2005 (HR 1186; http://thomas.
 
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