IRS Warns Congress About Failure to Address Alternate Tax
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Failure by Congress to act on the alternative minimum tax by year’s end will lead to “significant” delays in tax filing and a strain on taxpayers, said Steven Miller, the Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner.
The alternative minimum tax, or AMT, is part of the so-called fiscal negotiations in Congress. Leaving it untouched would affect taxpayers early in 2013, because its reach would be expanded for returns filed for tax year 2012.