Congress is scheduled to vote on the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt - TopicsExpress



          

Congress is scheduled to vote on the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act (MFDRA) today. The bill is an attempt to reclassify and thereby forgive foreclosure-related debts as taxable income. The MFDRA has been reinstituted several times since it was originally passed in 2007. Congress must pass this bill in the remaining days of the 113th Congress in order for the IRS to apply favorable tax treatment to struggling homeowners who use it. Proponents of the MFDRA say it will help to provide housing market flexibility by allowing homeowners to short sell underwater mortgages thereby foregoing the specter of foreclosure and keeping banks out of the business of owning real estate. Opponents of the measure believe the MFDRA is akin to a government subsidy for the housing market because tax dollars that otherwise would have gone to the U.S. Treasury will now be forgiven as debt and not collected.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:36:53 +0000

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