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Originally Posted by jaykay
Everything I read on the tax break said avoid AMT! Many articles discussed issues such as deferring donations until 2007, getting mutual funds and interest bearing accounts that would lower risk of hitting AMT, etc. This is not a sudden surprise. Tax planning was always encouraged, both in articles and threads on Green Hybrid. Good luck all!
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Nope I understand. I'm just saying you still have to calculate your AMT tax liability as well as your normal liability and then you can only take the difference as a credit. So if you would have owed 5,000 using the normal tax tables and 4,500 using the amt tax tables, you'd get a 500 credit for any hybrid car whether a prius or an accord (yes i said accord).
I'll have to look at my tax info for last year. I read in the article that I'm near one of the sweet spots. I'll just have to see how much my credit is going to be, if anything. I think many people felt like it would be like the deduction. I'd almost rather have the deduction now cuz I feel I'd probably do better then I'll do when calculating this AMT stuff.
Jayson