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House Finance Committee advances bill to expand state child and dependent care tax credit
Summary
House Bill 1534, which moves Pennsylvania’s child and dependent care enhancement tax credit into the Tax Reform Code and expands eligibility for families that use dependent care flexible spending accounts, passed the House Finance Committee as amended on a 14–12 vote.
House Bill 1534, which moves Pennsylvania’s child and dependent care enhancement tax credit into the Tax Reform Code and expands eligibility for families that use federal dependent care flexible spending accounts, passed the House Finance Committee as amended on a 14–12 vote.
The measure, sponsored by Representative Handbidge, would permit taxpayers who did not receive a federal child and dependent care credit but who participated in a dependent care assistance program (a federal FSA) to claim the same state enhancement credit as those who qualify under the standard state pathway. Shannon Snell, the committee’s senior…
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