New Report: Making Care Less Taxing

Posted by on June 9, 2006

As you may know, the National Women’s Law Center recently released a report analyzing state child and dependent care tax provisions, Making Care Less Taxing, which outlines ways in which state policymakers and advocates can develop the best tax policies for families with child and dependent care expenses. The companion state-by-state report card, Making the Grade for Care evaluates and ranks 31 tax provisions in 27 states based on the tax assistance they provide to working families that must pay for child and dependent care to be gainfully employed. Because of your work on tax issues affecting low-income families, we thought that the publication might be of interest to you. If you are interested in a hard copy of the publication, or are interested in working to improve child and dependent care tax provisions in your state (or to establish such a credit in one of the 14 states with an income tax which do not have such a provision), please email me at amatsui@nwlc.org with your contact information.

Over the past several years, the National Women’s Law Center has worked with child care advocates in several states on a tax credits outreach campaign where we emphasize the federal Child and Dependent Care Credit and state equivalents, as well as the federal and state EITCs and the federal Child Tax Credit. Please see our website for more details, http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=2493&section=tax. If you are interested in coordinating activities with our state partners (including in Oregon, New York, California, and Nebraska) or using our tax credit outreach materials next year, please also email me at amatsui@nwlc.org.