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Unemployment benefits in the stimulus plan include a tax exemption on the first $10,200 of benefits.
Democrats want to remove the requirement of an amended tax return for people who ve already filed.
If this isn t possible, Democrats asked for robust outreach to make filing easy for taxpayers.
The unemployment benefits in the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan that President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday included a tax exemption on the first $10,200 of the benefits received last year. But it could still be difficult for taxpayers to claim this exemption, and Senate Democrats are pushing the IRS to make it as easy as possible.