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http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=204671,00.html

First-Time Homebuyer Credit

 

Updated Nov. 17, 2009, to add more information on the new legislation

New Legislation

New legislation, the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009, which was signed into law on Nov. 6, 2009, extends and expands the first-time homebuyer credit allowed by previous Acts. The new law:

  • Extends deadlines for purchasing and closing on a home.
  • Authorizes the credit for long-time homeowners buying a replacement principal residence.
  • Raises the income limitations for homeowners claiming the credit.  

Under the new law, an eligible taxpayer must buy, or enter into a binding contract to buy, a principal residence on or before April 30, 2010 and close on the home by June 30, 2010. For qualifying purchases in 2010, taxpayers have the option of claiming the credit on either their 2009 or 2010 return.  

For the first time, long-time homeowners who buy a replacement principal residence may also claim a homebuyer credit of up to $6,500 (up to $3,250 for a married individual filing separately). They must have lived  in the same principal residence for any five-consecutive year period during the eight-year period that ended on the date the replacement home is purchased.

People with higher incomes can now qualify for the credit. The new law raises the income limits for homes purchased after Nov. 6, 2009. The credit phases out for individual taxpayers with modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) between $125,000 and $145,000 or between $225,000 and $245,000 for joint filers. The existing MAGI phase-outs of $75,000 to $95,000 or $150,000 to $170,000 for joint filers still apply to purchases on or before Nov. 6, 2009.

Several new restrictions apply to homes purchased after Nov. 6, 2009.

  • Purchasers must attach a properly executed settlement statement to their return.
  • No credit is available if the purchase price of the home exceeds $800,000.
  • The purchaser must be at least 18 years old on the date of purchase. For a married couple, only one spouse must meet this age requirement.
  • A dependent is not eligible for the credit.
  • The new law gives the IRS broader authority to deny first-time homebuyer credit claims, without having to first audit a taxpayer’s return. Known as math error authority, this authority applies, retroactively, to credits claimed on original and amended 2008 returns, as well as to claims yet to be filed.

Additionally, there are new benefits for members of the military and certain other federal employees:

  • Members of the uniformed services, members of the Foreign Service and employees of the intelligence community serving outside the U.S. have an extra year to buy a principal residence in the U.S. and qualify for the credit.
  • In many cases, the credit repayment (recapture) requirement is waived for members of the uniformed services, members of the Foreign Service and employees of the intelligence community.

More information on these new benefits for the military, Foreign Service and intelligence community serving outside the U.S. is available.   

General Information

Homebuyers who purchased a home in 2008, 2009 or 2010 may be able to take advantage of the first-time homebuyer credit. The credit:

  • Applies only to homes used as a taxpayer's principal residence.
  • Reduces a taxpayer's tax bill or increases his or her refund, dollar for dollar.
  • Is fully refundable, meaning the credit will be paid out to eligible taxpayers, even if they owe no tax or the credit is more than the tax owed.

The credit is claimed using Form 5405, which you file with your original or amended tax return.

For 2008 Home Purchases

The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 established a tax credit for first-time homebuyers that can be worth up to $7,500. For homes purchased in 2008, the credit is similar to a no-interest loan and must be repaid in 15 equal, annual installments beginning with the 2010 income tax year.

For 2009 Home Purchases

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 expanded the first-time homebuyer credit by increasing the credit amount to $8,000 for purchases made in 2009 before Dec. 1. However, the new Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 has extended the deadline. Now, taxpayers who have a binding contract to purchase a home before May 1, 2010, are eligible for the credit. Buyers must close on the home before July 1, 2010. [Added Nov. 12, 2009]

For home purchased in 2009, the credit does not have to be paid back unless the home ceases to be the taxpayer's main residence within a three-year period following the purchase.

First-time homebuyers who purchase a home in 2009 can claim the credit on either a 2008 tax return, due April 15, 2009, or a 2009 tax return, due April 15, 2010. The credit may not be claimed before the closing date. But, if the closing occurs after April 15, 2009, a taxpayer can still claim it on a 2008 tax return by requesting an extension of time to file or by filing an amended return. News release 2009-27 has more information on these options.

Questions and Answers

More information is available in the question and answer section.

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Page Last Reviewed or Updated: November 17, 2009

我准备看《蜗居》

网上看来的语录:

“该得到的我都得到了。爱我的丈夫,可人的女儿,应有的社会地 位和尊重。女人到我这个年纪,活得这么舒畅的,不多。我没任何怒气,我倒是很同情你,希望你能在我这年纪上,也能拥有与我一样多的东西,而不是像过街老鼠 一样出门小心翼翼。希望你以后的丈夫在知道你这段不堪的历史之后,依旧把你当成宝贝。”

----宋太太对“小三”郭海藻说。

“我种了20年的西瓜,到了收获的季节,硬生生的被别人收割了,凭什么呀!你家男人要是也这样,你也能挥一挥衣袖不带走一片云彩?”

----宋太太得知宋思明有外遇后说。

“做女人就是得对自己好点,吃好,喝好,玩好,万一一个不小心出了意外,别的女人就用咱省下的钱,住咱积攒的房,睡咱节省用的老公,打咱心疼的娃。你说咱克勤克俭的舍不得吃,舍不得穿,一心为家,有什么意思,总有些硕鼠来偷咱积攒下来的粮食,与其别人花,不如我们自己花”

----宋太太对闺密说。

“你 是我丈夫,我要的,不是你多么风光显要,多么飞黄腾达。那都是给外面人看的。我要的,就是到老有个伴,孩子有个爸爸。不过,现在我知道了,我这十几年的付 出,得到的不是自己老了以后有个相互扶持着走向墓地的人,却是在为别人做嫁衣裳。我度过了苦尽,把甘来留给后人。宋思明,你说你一回来,我就给你张臭脸 看。是的。的确如此,因为,我没办法笑出来。我每天早上醒来,枕头都是湿的,心里都是凉的,屋里都是空的,然后你要我在你回来的时候卑躬屈膝请求你, 讨好你,承欢你?我做不到。我们两个,好聚好散。我不去指责你有多么的无情,多么的忘恩负义,多么的朝三暮四,因为到我这个年纪的女人,早就该明白,男人 都是一样,年轻的时候需要垫脚石,中年的时候需要强心针,晚年的时候需要根拐棍。我活该自己做了垫脚石。没什么可抱怨的。但是,请你不要在无情上再加卑 鄙,把分裂家庭的责任还推卸到我的头上。不爱了就是不爱了,不谈对错,不谈谁负了谁。但不要给自己贴上道德的标签。”----宋太太对宋思明说


钱学森 on Wiki

大多数声音说,钱学森因为爱国,所以离开美国回到中国。

英雄的行为模式总是很简单,a且仅有a就可以推出b。简单就是完美,比如1+1=2。英雄必然都是完美的,故他们的行为模式必然简单,从崇高到伟大,不能有他。

你我都是人,所以不用借助任何理论,你我就都能知道,理解和认同这一点:正常人正常状态下应该是复杂的丰富的,有时候甚至是自相矛盾的。在绝大多数情况下,一个人的行为,从intention的形成到付诸实施都是很多因素合力作用的结果,并不是从a就可以直接推到b。一个道德的人,a起码就应该是两个元素的集合:a1 private interests 和a2 public interests。没有a1此人不是正常的自然人,没有a2此人不是合格的社会人。这两种利益的碰撞,摩擦,斗争,妥协,实在是千变万化。最后哪一种被真正实现,充其量只能说是一个accident。更具体一点说,a1和a2都是决策人主观的第一人称的,是个人对于这些interests的理解。而关于对某些事情的理解,是人与社会,他人,环境,自己interaction的结果。由于外界因素的不可控,这个interaction的结果只能被定义为happen to be what it is,并不是必然如此。既然causal link里面的cause都是一个accident,由这个cause引发的result也就是个accident。既然不是必然如此,并不必要称颂一个accident b(钱学森离开美国回到中国)的发生。称颂b(离开美国回到中国)发生了以后的成就就可以了(因为从这段引文可以看出成就的发生也可以由非b, (i.e.没有离开美国),引发,所以成就并不是accident b的结果,不构成因果关系)。

我觉得钱学森是一个非常非常牛的科学家。



以下是转载wiki上关于钱学森的一段,原文link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen#Career_in_the_United_States

对于五个军团为什么回归,不妨揣测。


Career in the United States

Left to right: Ludwig Prandtl (German scientist), Qian Xuesen, Theodore von Kármán. Prandtl served Germany during World War II; von Kármán and Qian served the United States; after 1956, Qian served China. Qian's overseas cap displays his temporary U.S. Army rank of colonel. Interestingly, Prandtl was von Kármán's doctoral adviser; von Kármán in turn was Qian's.

In 1943, Qian and two others in the Caltech rocketry group drafted the first document to use the name Jet Propulsion Laboratory; it was a proposal to the Army for developing missiles in response to Germany's V-2 rocket. This led to the Private A, which flew in 1944, and later the Corporal, the WAC Corporal, and other designs.

After World War II he served under von Kármán as a consultant to the United States Army Air Force, and was given the temporary rank of colonel. Von Kármán and Tsien both were sent by the Army to Germany to investigate the progress of wartime aerodynamics research. Qian investigated research facilities and interviewed German scientists including Wernher von Braun and Rudolph Hermann.[8] Von Kármán wrote of Qian, “At the age of 36, he was an undisputed genius whose work was providing an enormous impetus to advances in high-speed aerodynamics and jet propulsion.”[2] The American journal Aviation Week & Space Technology would name Qian its Person of the Year in 2007, and comment on his interrogation of von Braun, "No one then knew that the father of the future U.S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program."[9]

During this time, Colonel Qian worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X-20 Dyna-Soar, which itself would later influence the development of the American Space Shuttle.

Jiang Ying in 1947

Qian Xuesen married Jiang Ying (蒋英), a famed opera singer and the daughter of Jiang Baili (蒋百里) and his wife, Japanese nurse Satô Yato. The elder Jiang was a military strategist and adviser to Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. The Qians were married on September 14, 1947 in Shanghai, and would have two children; their son Qian Yonggang was born in Boston on October 13, 1948, while their daughter Qian Yungjen was born in early 1950, when the family was residing in Pasadena.[10]

Shortly after his wedding to Ying, Qian returned to America, to take up a teaching position at MIT; Ying would join him in December 1947.[11] In 1949, upon the recommendation of von Kármán, Qian became the first director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center at Caltech [12].

Soon after Qian applied for U.S. citizenship in 1949, allegations were made that he was a communist, and his security clearance was revoked in June 1950[13]. The Federal Bureau of Investigation located an American Communist Party document from 1938 with his name on it, and used it as justification for the revocation. Without clearance, Qian found himself unable to pursue his career, and within two weeks announced plans to return to mainland China, which had come under the government of Communist leader Mao Zedong. After Qian's plans became known, the U.S. government detained him at Terminal Island, an isolated U.S. Navy facility and Federal prison offshore of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The Undersecretary of the Navy at the time, Dan A. Kimball, tried to keep Qian in the U.S., commenting:

"It was the stupidest thing this country ever did. He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go."[14]

Qian became the subject of five years of secret diplomacy and negotiation between the U.S. and China. During this time he lived under constant surveillance in a state of near house arrest.[15] Qian found himself in conflict with both the FBI and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and at one point was arrested for allegedly smuggling secret documents out of the US; these ultimately turned out to be simple logarithmic tables. During his incarceration, Qian received support from his colleagues at Caltech, including the institute's president Lee DuBridge, who flew to Washington to argue Qian's case. Caltech appointed attorney Grant Cooper to defend Qian. Later, Cooper would say, "That the government permitted this genius, this scientific genius, to be sent to Communist China to pick his brains is one of the tragedies of this century."[16]





Talking about 妈呀,中国

 转载phoebe,原博见下

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妈呀,中国

这首原创歌曲有两位在北美的清华校友创作滴,一位网名是'我爱微风',另一位叫Timothy。

作词:Timothy,我爱微风
作曲/配器/制作:我爱微风
演唱:Timothy,我爱微风


       

歌词《妈呀, 中国!》

我生在新中国,我长在红旗下
我带过红领巾,我爱国如爱家
十年寒窗苦,我好不容易进清华
我成绩不算差,
(合) 可我户口落不下

阴差又阳错,我出国象出家
为了养家糊口,我得赶紧办绿卡
出国护照难拿,回国却偏要VISA
(合) 入了外国籍,但我做梦都说中国话

我的大中国,我的大华夏
尽管我在外飘泊,总是把你牵挂
我的大中国,我的大华夏
(合) 风里雨里同度过,我只认你这个妈

我曾经爱闯荡,现在却很想家
爸爸已经去世,家里就剩妈妈
我很想做海归,怕你嫌我年纪大
可是你看那谁,他八十二能娶二十八

在国外住得越久,我心里就越放不下
好不容易请了假,我兴冲冲地飞回家, (说)北京欢迎你
看着立交桥发傻,我迷失在高楼大厦
江河流着黑水,天空下着黄沙 (说) 妈呀,这也算是晴天啊

老同学一见面,感觉亲如一家 (说) 哥们,喝酒!
(可陌生人对我,有时冷眼有时骂 (说) 嘿!你长不长眼啊
车比纽约还多,路比伦敦要大 (说) 那当然
到处奔驰宝马,坐进去那真叫害怕 (说) 找死啊你!

(合) 不管怎么样,是你把我养大
即使跑遍了全世界,也忘不了这个家
只希望你更好,原谅我有时乱说话
儿女发点牢骚,当妈的根本不用怕

我的大中国,我的大华夏
尽管我在外飘泊,总是把你牵挂
(合) 我的大中国,我的大华夏
风里雨里同度过,我只认你这个妈
风里雨里同度过,我只认你这个妈
风里雨里同度过, 我只认你这个(合) 妈



最后,我有点儿纳闷,为什么清华就那么容易出原创歌手人才呢。是写code写的么?速速飘走~~~


继续婚礼


忘了说我公公婆婆了:P



再看一遍伴娘团吧。。。个顶个得好姑娘阿。。。有动心的通知我



抛花球



送给俩爸俩妈的礼物--体重娃娃,namely按我和马出生时候体重分别定做的娃娃



两个紧张的爸爸,都在念稿。。。



杯子里面是可乐



我的喜糖砸伤无数啊。。。另外,马同学说还好我早上没吃饭。。。



看图说话续集

话说婚礼篇在我的威逼利诱和江湖追杀令的震慑下,反响强烈,众位好友亲朋很给面子,我很欣慰。
望你们戒骄戒躁,下次不用我提醒第一时间留言哈~~~坚决抗议在我强烈要求了夸我漂亮之后还不夸我的行为。。。

经过婚礼的折腾,我已然又是五个月没见我导师。我认为想明年毕业那是痴人说梦。本来我对该次婚礼非常怀恨在心,总结起来觉得是--不办后悔,办了更加后悔。但是经过这段时间组织上对我强大的说服教育,我又觉得还不错了。可见这是众口铄金,积毁销骨啊。。。

折腾了一大圈人,感谢一下

兄弟姐妹们提前半年的折腾




伴郎伴娘7:30就到现场




小瑾瑾千里迢迢回来给我当现场工作人员



在空中飞来飞去,百忙之中在北京落了一天的JJ。







to be continued...




婚礼看图说话

首先澄清一下(因为总是被问到):
1。我没戴假发,我头发就是厚
2。我没染头发,我头发就是棕栗色




定妆照

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大学组合影。从左开始:从香港赶回来的刚刚,从美国赶回来的胡mm,从上海赶回来的小瑾瑾,留守北京的小伽佳。辛苦了辛苦了。有朋友真幸福啊~~~
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高中组合影。yy,ll,tt,你们一定一定一定要幸福!!


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