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Senate adopts S.51 conference report: child and veteran tax changes advance, unpaid caregiver credit removed for further work
Summary
The Vermont Senate unanimously accepted the S.51 conference report, enacting a package of tax changes including expansions to the child tax credit, earned income tax credit changes, and new veteran tax credits while removing an unpaid caregiver credit from the final conference report pending further study by the tax department.
The Vermont Senate accepted and adopted the conference committee report on S.51 and then messaged the actions to the governor. The vote on the conference report was recorded as 28 yeas, 0 nays.
Senator Cummings, the senior senator from the Washington District and a conferee on the bill, told the Senate the conference package replaces a standalone unpaid caregiver tax credit with several other tax provisions. "When the bill came back to us that provision had been struck," he said, and described the package that remained in the conference report: a child tax credit protected from federal‑number requirements, an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit to increase benefits for childless…
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