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forebearance





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If you owe $50k, you get a forebearance for all of it, and you're in a 25% Tax bracket, you're on the hook for $12,500 in taxes to the IRS.

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2017

The article should discuss the serious tax consequences of forebearance.

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2017

“The amount of sweeping forebearance they did today is unprecedented.”

From Forbes Feb. 26, 2015

The bank revealed it has 7,383 customers in its "forebearance portfolios" - 5.8 per cent of its mortgages, by value.

From The Guardian Feb. 24, 2011

The Romans, who had little understanding and less love for these silly bickerings of a race which they rather despised, showed great forebearance.

From The Story of Mankind by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem




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