From the National Council For Adoption:
Grassroots Advocacy Kit on the Adoption Tax Credit Now Available from NCFA
The
National Council For Adoption (NCFA), a longtime supporter of the
adoption tax credit, joins our fellow adoption and child welfare
advocates in calling for the extension of the adoption
tax credit for families adopting children via foster care,
intercountry, or domestic infant adoption.
Since
the adoption tax credit was first established in 1997, it has helped
lessen the financial burden of adoption for thousands of
income-qualifying American families that might not
otherwise have been able to adopt.
The current maximum allowable adoption tax credit of $13,360 for all adoptive families is set to sunset on December 31, 2012.
Unless Congress acts to extend or make permanent the adoption tax
credit, it will revert at this time to a maximum of $6,000 for parents
adopting children with special needs. No tax credit will be available to
other adoptive parents.
“Without
the adoption tax credit, many families that are willing and hoping to
adopt will find themselves unable to afford it. And many families that
adopt despite the loss of the tax
credit will find it more difficult to provide for their children if
they have assumed significant debt in order to adopt,” says Chuck
Johnson. “The adoption tax credit must be extended in order to support
adoptive parents and help as many children as possible
find love and permanency through adoption.”
ACT NOW :: Download NCFA's Adoption Tax Credit Advocacy Kit
This
new advocacy kit from NCFA will help you educate policymakers, members
of the media, and others on the importance of extending the adoption tax
credit to promote permanency for
children. The
advocacy kit contains a backgrounder on the adoption tax credit, a
letter that can be used as a template to email or write to members of
Congress, a talking points guide for phone calls with legislators’
offices, a sample newspaper opinion editorial or
letter to the editor, and further ways to join NCFA in our advocacy for
the adoption tax credit and other important policies. All resources in
NCFA’s new
Adoption Tax Credit Advocacy Kit can be downloaded from our website,
www.adoptioncouncil.org.
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