The Telephone Excise Tax Refund (TETR) is a one-time payment available on your 2006 federal income tax return. It is designed to refund previously collected long distance telephone taxes. Individuals, businesses and tax-exempt organizations are eligible to request it.
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This refund will be the most wide-reaching in IRS history - more than 160 million filers may request it. That's a lot of questions.
Individuals
Taxpayers have a choice: a standard refund amount between $30 and $60, based on the total number of exemptions claimed on their 2006 tax return, to eliminate the need to locate old phone bills; or they can locate those bills and use the actual amount.
Businesses and Tax-Exempt Organizations
Businesses and tax-exempts can dig through their old phone bills for the past 41 months to base their telephone tax refund on the actual amount of tax paid. Or they can review their bills for 2 months and use a special formula to figure the refund.
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Likewise, tax-exempts, including churches and charities, must fill out
Form 8913 and attach it to Form 990-T.
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