Individual Tax Breaks Retroactively Extended by the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014

Dear Client, On Dec. 16, 2014, Congress passed the “Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014,” (TIPA, or “the Act”), which the President recently signed into law. As explained in this Special Study, the Act extends a host of individual tax provisions, including the above-the-line deductions for higher education expenses and educators’ expenses, deductions for state…