New Tax Credits Outreach Toolkit for Child Care Advocates
Thursday, October 12
- Organization: The National Women's Law Center
The National Women's Law Center has prepared a
Toolkit for Child Care Advocates for the 2007 Tax Filing Season as part of the Center’s Tax Credits Outreach Campaign in partnership with state child care advocates. The Toolkit explains how you can help inform families about federal and state tax credits that can put thousands of dollars in their pockets!When families file their 2006 tax returns during the 2007 tax filing season, eligible families can claim up to:
$2,100
from the federal Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit;$1,000
per child from the federal Child Tax Credit; and$4,536
from the federal Earned Income Tax Credit.In addition, 28 states (including the District of Columbia) have child and dependent care tax provisions, and in 13 states the credits are refundable. Twenty states (including the District of Columbia) have state earned income tax credits, which can provide additional help in paying for child care and other needs. And in some cases, these tax credits provide cash refunds to families whose incomes are too low to owe income taxes.
Read the Toolkit to find out how you can start preparing now for a Tax Credits Outreach Campaign in your community!
The Toolkit provides suggestions about how to conduct an outreach campaign ranging from distributing fliers about tax credits to families at child care centers to creating and placing public service announcements publicizing the campaign, along with examples from past campaign partners. It is a valuable companion piece to the various federal and state-specific materials in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese that the Center will publish on its campaign webpage later this fall, including fliers, fact sheets, payroll envelope inserts and other campaign materials.
For more information
, for help in preparing state-specific materials, or to join the Tax Credits Outreach Campaign, please visit our 2007 Tax Credits Outreach Campaign website or contact Lauren Seemeyer at (202) 588-5180 or lseemeyer@nwlc.org.
