150 Steps...an Adoption Journey: Taxes

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Taxes

With the passage of the health care reform act earlier this week comes additional welcome news for adoptive families:

The maximum credit was increased from $12,150 to $13,170
The credit is extended through December 2011.

Apparently, it's also rather complicated so I guess I'll be reading up on the details and hoping that Turbo Tax can help out.

1 comment:

Mrs H said...: Well, I guess one good thing about not having adopted/been matched yet is now we can have bigger tax credit!

I'm just glad it got extended. That's about what we've spent so far.; March 31, 2010 at 8:42 PM

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The Story of 150 Steps

I first wrote about the start of our adoption journey on my other blog, "Walks in the Marsh". However, it was a conversation with a friend, as she inquired how our adoption effort was going, that inspired "150 Steps." When asked about our progress, I started to explain all the things we were doing and still had to do before giving up and saying, "If the adoption process has 150 steps, we're on step 6." Since it's going to take some time to walk those additional steps, I thought I'd keep a record of our progress so our hoped-for "Plus One" will know how hard we worked to bring her into our family.

Here it is.