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Up Close - Up Close - October 25, 2012
Tax planners eye options as Bush-era cuts near sunset
Obamacare provisions also scheduled to figure into returns for 2013

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Tax preparers here say they're bracing for a frantic winter regardless of how the tax picture shakes out, as their clients take advantage of tax breaks for 2012 and start planning for big changes in 2013.

 With the Bush-era tax cuts set to expire and Obamacare provisions coming into effect on Jan. 1, 90 percent of Americans could expect to be hit with tax increases next year, says Kevin Cox, principal at the Spokane office of Minneapolis-based LarsonAllen LLP accounting firm.
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