Artists must keep a copy of the payment receipt. Application fees are no-refundable.

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The new tax deal did extend the adoption credit permanently with one significant hit: the credit is no longer refundable.

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But there is no way to know today how much of the credit would be refundable, or even whether budget process reform would change those rules.

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Under current budget conventions, the refundable portion (that is, the piece of the credit that goes to recipients who already pay no tax) is considered spending.

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