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Obama Extends the Home Buyers Tax Credit
The housing tax credit
Qualifiers
- The measure limits the purchase price of the home to $800,000.
- It also imposes income caps so that people who make more than $125,000 annually and couples who make more than $225,000 would not be eligible for a refund.
- Anyone who collects the tax credit but sells their home within three years of buying it must return the refund.
- Current homeowners who are buying a new primary residence would be eligible for a $6,500 tax credit starting Dec. 1 if they owned their home for five consecutive years in the previous eight.
- Military families who have been deployed overseas for 90 days or more in 2008 or 2009, would have until April 30, 2011 to sign a contract.
- The program is estimated at $11 billion
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