Tax breaks could be headed our way: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Tax breaks could be headed our way: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "tax breaks could be headed our way

Federal benefits first planned for Katrina victims

By Harriet Johnson Brackey
Business Writer
Posted December 15 2005
Max out the credit cards or break into your retirement savings? Floridians struggling to find cash to make hurricane repairs might want to keep an eye on Capitol Hill.

Moving through the halls of Congress is a generous package of hurricane tax relief measures designed for Hurricane Katrina's victims that may be extended to those who suffered from hurricanes Wilma and Rita.

These tax breaks would greatly ease the burden of snatching cash from savings."