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S 2565 113th Congress Senate Taxation Child care and development Income tax credits Inflation and prices

Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act

Introduced: July 8, 2014 Introduced by: Shaheen, Jeanne Democratic · New Hampshire See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jul 8, 2014
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for employment-related expenses incurred for the care of a taxpayer's dependent, to: (1) increase to $200,000, the adjusted gross income threshold level above which such credit is incrementally reduced; (2) increase the dollar limit on the allowable amount of such credit; (3) allow an inflation adjustment to the threshold amount and the maximum credit amounts, beginning after 2015; and (4) make such credit refundable.

What's happening now July 8, 2014

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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