Fairness for Adopting Families Act
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Fairness for Adopting Families Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual income tax deduction for qualified adoption expenses. Includes as deductible all reasonable and necessary expenses that do not violate a Federal or State law and that are directly related to a legal adoption of any child if the adoption has been arranged by a State, local, or other nonprofit agency, or through a private placement.
Excludes the deduction from the two percent floor on miscellaneous itemized deductions.
Excludes from an employee's gross income any amounts paid on behalf of the employee by an employer pursuant to a qualified adoption assistance program.
Limits both the deduction and the exclusion to $5,000 ($7,000 in the case of an international adoption). Reduces the amount when the taxpayer's income exceeds $60,000.
Permits an employer to treat an adoption assistance program as a statutory employee benefit plan, thus making the employer's contributions to such a program tax deductible as business expenses.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1205: Fairness for Adopting Families Act. 101st Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-1205/
"H.R. 1205: Fairness for Adopting Families Act." 101st Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-1205/.
H.R. 1205, 101st Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/101-HR-1205/.
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