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By: Diana OlickCNBC Real Estate Reporter   For those of you keeping score on the first time home buyer tax credit extension, here is the latest: — The tax credit would be $8,000 for first-time home buyers and $6,500 for move-up buyers (from December 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010). — Move-up buyers w...

By Andrea Coombes, MarketWatch   SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Even as Congress mulls whether to extend the popular first-time home-buyer tax credit aimed at shoring up the decimated U.S. housing market, government auditors said Thursday that thousands of ineligible taxpayers have received milli...