By J. Craig Anderson
The Arizona Republic
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Arizona homeowners have little to fear from the impending expiration of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, which exempts most homeowners from paying a federal tax on forgiven debt through foreclosure, short sale or loan modification.
According to local real estate and legal experts, the debt-relief act always has been redundant in Arizona because of the state’s “non-recourse” law, which protects homeowners from taxation on forgiven debt.
“It will have much less of an impact in Arizona than most people think,” Arizona State University real-estate analyst Mike Orr said about the act’s expiration, set for Monday.