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How Tax Policy Is Linked to Quality Early Care and Education

Confused About How Tax Policy Relates to Quality Early Care and Education?

Insight Center’s Webinar on ECE Tax Policy provided the information, resources and insight necessary to determine if embarking on a tax policy strategy in your state is the right course to take.

Three experts in the field presented during the webinar:

Louise Stoney
Louise is an independent consultant specializing in child care and early childhood education policy, co-founder of the Alliance for Early Childhood Finance, and a partner in the Linking Economic Development and Child Care Project. Louise has worked for more than two dozen national organizations including the National Conference of State Legislatures, National Governors Association, National Association of Counties, Education Commission of the States, the United Way, the Committee for Economic Development and the American Enterprise Institute.

Louise Stoney provided a brief overview of tax benefits, how they are currently used in early care and education, and how they might be used in future policy.

Geoffrey Nagle
Geoff is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine and the Director of the Tulane Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. He contributes to numerous advisory groups in Louisiana, including: the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet; the Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board; the Child Care Development Fund Advisory Group; the Solutions to Poverty Steering Committee; and the Board of the Louisiana Partnership for Childhood and Families and the Louisiana Children’s Museum

Geoff provided an overview of important tax terms, including deductions vs. credits, and refundable vs. non-refundable. A synopsis of the Louisiana School Readiness Tax Credits provides examples of the possibilities that exist for the way tax credits can be structured to help build and sustain quality child care.

Amy Matsui
Amy is a Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. She works on economic issues affecting low-income women and families, with special emphasis on tax policies pertaining to families with children, such as state and federal child and dependent care tax provisions and other tax credits for which families with children may be eligible. Her work includes analysis of state and federal tax policies, technical assistance to state advocates, and public education. She also coordinates the Center’s tax credits outreach campaign, which is conducted in partnership with child care advocates in eight states.

Amy’s presentation discussed two kinds of state and federal tax provisions designed to address the challenges working families face trying to find high quality child care.