Alternative minimum tax. This very unpopular parallel tax system has been reined in and will zap fewer Americans in 2018. The AMT started in 1982 as an effort to reduce loopholes open to ultra-high-income earners, but its net gradually spread and it affected more individuals. In the 1990s, Congress hiked the AMT tax rate, stiffening its cost. Under the AMT, the standard deduction and deductions for state and local income taxes are lost. With the new law, your exemption - the amount you can subtract from your AMT liability - is much larger. Previously, $54,300 was exempt for a single-filer and $84,500 for a married couple filing jointly. Respectively, the exemptions increased by almost a third, to $70,300 and $109,400.
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