As part of their year-end budget deliberations, members of Congress are considering which special tax breaks to renew before the 2015 tax filing season begins and it’s too late for filers to take advantage of them.

Since 1998, a package of tax breaks have expired and then been retroactively extended seven times, earning them the “tax extenders” label. At the end of 2013, 55 such temporary tax breaks in the federal tax code expired.

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