So last summer when I was getting bids for the replacement windows for my house, each contractor highlighted the "$200 Tax Credit" the government would give me for installing energy-efficient windows. Well, I got the new windows. Well, I was preparing my taxes the other night and could not find the form for the tax credit. So, I called up the IRS and asked, "WHAT'S UP?"
It turns out the law that created that tax credit for 2006 and 2007 was allowed to expire for 2008! It was reinstated for 2009 in one of the economic relief stimulus bills passed late last year, but for 2008, you're out of luck. Bummer!
I'm not too broken up about it, as it's only $200 and I get a headache trying to figure out who should have known about the expiration of that law. Yeah, someone somewhere had to know about it, but who do you blame? Does it really matter?
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Yep, my returns were a huge "hit" with me this year as well! Who really is to blame? Can't pin that one down.
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