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What Safe Harbor Really Means for Ponzi Victims - IRS Estimates it will Refund Fraud Victims $17 Billion, But Not Without a Fight

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Under the NEW IRC Section 165 Safe Harbor Rules the IRS estimates it will refund victims of the Bernard Madoff’s massive ponzi scheme around $17 billion!!
The Safe Harbor provisions are crucial to obtaining relief for victims of investment stock fraud because it converts what would ordinarily be a capital loss (which is offset against capital gains and any unused capital loss is then limited to a deduction of only $3,000
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