(PRWEB) December 20, 2012
The Homeowners Consumer Center is urging President Obama, and the US Congress to immediately extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act now, ahead of time to do so comes, and goes. Without having an extension of this law over ten million existing US homeowners, who owe far more on their house than it is worth could get hit with a enormous IRS tax bill, should they do any variety of loan modification, a deed in lieu of foreclosure, a short sale, or anything else that entails a mortgage principal reduction from their mortgage lender in 2013. The Home owners Consumer Center says, “We worry most US property owners are not conscious of the truth that without having an extension of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act by President Obama, and the US Congress, any sort of principal reduction by a bank involving a loan modification, a brief sale, a deed in lieu of foreclosure, or foreclosure will be treated as ordinary earnings by the US IRS. Just as an example if you live in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Miami, Chicago, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Memphis, Boston, or any other US city, and town, and your lender, or mortgage loan servicing firm agrees to a mortgage principal reduction as part of a loan modification, or a short sale-the mortgage principal reduction will be treated by the IRS as ordinary revenue by the US IRS. Is this actually what President Obama meant when he mentioned Forward for the duration of his 2012 presidential campaign?” http://HomeownersConsumerCenter.Com

According to Bloomberg News on November 29th 2012, “The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 enables borrowers to avoid paying revenue taxes on the amount of principal thats forgiven as part of a loan modification or in the course of a brief sale in which they sell their houses for significantly less than they owe. If the measure expires, home owners would have to count such debt reduction as money they earned.” http://HomeownersConsumerCenter.Com

The Property owners Consumer Center believes casualties from President Obama, and the US Congress failing to extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act will incorporate:
The Homeowners Consumer Center says, “What happens if President Obama’s Tax the Rich presidential campaign theme backfires, and the US economy tanks since of elevated taxes on little enterprise owners, or farmers? We think unemployment goes up. We also feel upside down homeowners will be forced to stroll away from their homes in droves. How does a newly unemployed person spend his, or her principal reduction IRS tax bill, if they no longer are employed?” 
More US property foreclosures, and far more instability in the US housing markets. 
Thousands of real estate agents that specialize in short sales could suddenly be unemployed. What homeowner is going to do a short sale on their below water house if they get taxed on the principal reduction-as ordinary earnings? 
Mortgage lenders, banks, mortgage brokers, and law firms that specialize in loan modifications will also be joining the unemployment lines-what homeowner-who owes more on their residence than it is worth would want to do a loan modification, if the principal reduction is taxed as ordinary revenue?
The Property owners Consumer Center says, “What happens to the 22.eight% of all US homeowners, who are upside down on their house mortgage when they all of a sudden understand-if they never stroll away from their houses now-they may well get taxed on any sort of principal reduction in 2013, if they do a loan modification, a brief sale, a deed in lieu, or something involving a principal reduction from their bank? At this moment we are saying if the US Congress, and the Obama Administration do not extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act-now-its not just rich men and women who could be facing a enormous tax improve in 2013, it could also be almost 25% of our nations homeowners.” http://HomeownersConsumerCenter.Com