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		<title>Keep the Federal Adoption Tax Credit Alive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Adoption Tax credit is a huge help when it comes to the cost of adoption. This year the is $12,150 but the tax credit is set to expire in December 2010 unless Congress votes to continue it.  The Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act of 2009, H.R. 213 will keep the adoption tax credit from being expiring. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=houstonorphanalliance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6675140&amp;post=110&amp;subd=houstonorphanalliance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-116" title="hr-213" src="http://houstonorphanalliance.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/hr-2132.jpg?w=468" alt="hr-213" />The <a href="http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607.html"><span style="color:#105cb6;">Federal Adoption Tax credit</span></a> is a huge help when it comes to the cost of adoption. This year the is $12,150 but the tax credit is set to expire in December 2010 unless Congress votes to continue it. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-213" target="_blank"><span style="color:#105cb6;">The Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act of 2009, H.R. 213 </span></a>will keep the adoption tax credit from being expiring.</p>
<p>Please take a moment today to email or call your senators and congressmen —  </p>
<p><a href="https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color:#105cb6;">Write your U.S. Representative</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="color:#105cb6;">Write your U.S. Senator</span></a></p>
<p>Cindy at <a href="http://adopttaiwan.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/federal-adoption-tax-credit/"><span style="color:#105cb6;">Our Adoption Journey</span></a> provides a great widget/button for your blog to raise awareness about this legislation &#8211; just cut and paste the following code to your site:  </p>
<p><code><span style="background-color:#f9f9f9;">&lt;a href=" http://adopttaiwan.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/federal-adoption-tax-credit/"&gt; &lt;img src="http://adopttaiwan.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/hr-213.jpg"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;</span></code></p>
<p>[HT: <a href="http://adopttaiwan.wordpress.com//"><span style="color:#105cb6;">Cindy</span></a>]</p>
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