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Tax department warns refundable caregiver credit would be hard to administer
Summary
Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Samraff told a committee of conference that verifying eligibility for a proposed refundable caregiver tax credit—specifically unpaid status, 20 hours per week of care and medical need—would create administrative and privacy challenges and may be better handled as a human services program.
At a committee of conference meeting, the Department of Taxes told senators the proposed refundable caregiver tax credit raises verification and privacy problems that could make tax administration difficult.
Rebecca Samraff, deputy commissioner at the Department of Taxes, told the committee that the department can reliably verify the presence of income but cannot easily verify the absence of income or attestations about unpaid caregiving time. “We're really good at verifying the presence of income, not so much the absence of it,” she said, adding that the 20-hours-per-week threshold and the unpaid‑caregiver requirement…
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