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Healthy Homes Tax Credit 2012

August 19, 2012 5:47 pm
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When we look at our data we notice that our readership is typically between the ages of 24-45 so if we could ask all of you youngsters to pass this information on to your parents or grandparents that would be great.You could save them $1,500 come tax time.

Have you heard of theĀ Healthy Home Renovation Tax Credit? Well neither had we until one of our sources within a large accounting firm gave us a heads up. We haven’t seen any other brokerages comment so we thoughtĀ  we’d take the lead.

Basically if you were 65 years of age or older on December 31st, 2012 you are eligible to claim up to $10,000 of your ā€œHealthyā€ home improvements for a 15% return on your 2012 taxes up to a maximum of $1,500. This tax benefit also applies to those (regardless of their age) who are making modifications to their home to accommodate a senior.

These Healthy Home Improvements include the following

 

The great thing is that you won’t need to submit receipts for the claim but you should definitely keep them handy in case the CRA comes a knockin.

Experimental Economist Vernon Smith on the Housing Bubble, Adam Smith, and Libertarianism

Experimental Economist Vernon Smith on the Housing Bubble, Adam Smith, and Libertarianism

Vernon Smith is a pioneer, discovering a whole new way to study economics and winning a Nobel Prize for doing so. Smith sat down with Reason.tv’s Nick Gillespie to discuss a variety of topics, including growing up in Kansas during the Great Depression, his ideological journey from socialist to libertarian, how and why some of Adam Smith’s most important intellectual contributions are overlooked, and what experimental economics has to say about the collapse of the housing market. Interview by Nick Gillespie. Shot by Zach Weissmueller and Hawk Jensen. Edited by Weissmueller. Approximately 24 minutes. Visit Reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason.tv’s YouTube Channel to receive automatic notifications when new material goes live.

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