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Small Business Impact of the Fiscal Cliff Deal

In an effort to get the word out, yesterday the White House sponsored a conference call with small business owners to describe the "Fiscal Cliff" bill, signed into law by President Obama on January 3rd in a successful effort to avoid a government shutdown. ( For a detailed, highly technical summary of the new law, see:  http://tax.cchgroup.com/ downloads/files/pdfs/ legislation/ATPR.pdf ) The law extends the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000.  It keeps the earned income tax credit, tax credits for child care, and  something called the American Opportunity Tax Credit : college tuition  tax breaks. The law also fixes a problem with the Alternative Minimum  Tax (AMT), in the sense that those in the middle class will not be  faced with a $2,500 increase in taxes due to the AMT. The White House called this a balanced approach, meaning that upper  income persons will face higher taxes. The law reinstates a 39.6% tax  rate on those with income over $450,000