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The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (changing treatment of the sale of principal residences)

a.

Changed the Section 121 exclusion.
b.

Repealed the Residential Rollover (Section 1034).
c.

Both of the above.
d.

Neither A nor B.

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