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Committee moves ITL on bill to let child-support payers claim child tax credit; concerns over fairness and low payments prevail
Summary
Representative Barton's House Bill 322 would give a parent paying child support the exclusive right to claim the child as a dependent for tax-credit purposes; the committee voted ITL after testimony that low support amounts and judicial discretion already address allocation fairly.
Representative Barton, prime sponsor of House Bill 322, said the 2018 federal tax change that ended a payer's ability to deduct child support left payers unfairly taxed on money they must earn and remit. "Since 2018, child support payments are no longer tax deductible," Barton told the committee, arguing that payers who provide the financial support "ought to at least take the child's tax credit" when they are the primary financial supporter.
Committee members pressed the sponsor…
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