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| Date: From: Subject: | 1/26/2007 2:34:14 PM Home School Legal Defense Association North Dakota--Support $1,000 Tax Credit for Homeschooling Families! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== January 26, 2007 North Dakota--Support $1,000 Tax Credit for Homeschooling Families! Dear HSLDA members and friends: Take advantage of a great opportunity to get some tax relief for your family! On Monday, January 29, the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee will consider Senate Bill 2414 which would provide an income tax credit of $1,000 per child for each homeschooling family in North Dakota. For most North Dakotans conducting home education programs, this would eliminate paying any state income tax at all. Show your support for this bill by contacting members of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee and attending the hearing at the Capitol Building in Bismarck on Monday. The hearing will be in the Lewis and Clark room at 10 a.m. Make this a field trip for your children to observe the legislative process of state government. Regardless of whether you attend the hearing, please call members of the committee TODAY and ask them to vote for Senate Bill 2414. ACTION REQUESTED: (1) Please call and/or e-mail as many members of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee as possible and urge them to vote in favor of Senate Bill 2414 with this message: "Please vote for Senate Bill 2414 which would provide a tax credit for parents teaching their children at home. Homeschooling families now have the double expense of paying taxes to support public schools as well as providing curriculum materials and equipment for their home education program." The contact information for the members of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee is as follows: Sen. Herbert Urlacher, (R): 36th District - Chairman (701) 974-3682 hurlacher@nd.gov Sen. Ben Tollefson, (R): 38th District - Vice-Chairman (701) 839-4949 btollefson@nd.gov Sen. Arden C. Anderson, (D): 25th District (701) 642-6140 aranderson@nd.gov Sen. Dwight Cook, (R): 34th District (701) 663-7421 dcook@nd.gov Sen. Robert M. Horne, (D): 3rd District (701) 852-6318 rhorne@nd.gov Sen. Dave Oehlke, (R): 15th District (701) 662-8587 doehlke@nd.gov Sen. Constance Triplett, (D): 18th District (701) 772-8009 ctriplett@nd.gov (2) Please attend the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee Hearing on Monday, January 29, 2007, at the Capitol Building in Bismarck. If you are willing to testify, please come early at 9 a.m. just outside the Lewis and Clark room to coordinate testimonies. Even if you are coming to show your support by your presence, which is equally important, please plan to arrive early by 9:30 a.m., just in case the hearing starts earlier than the scheduled 10 a.m. starting time. To view the text of Senate Bill 2414, please visit http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3660 BACKGROUND: Homeschoolers currently pay for the public education system while they privately educate their own children. This "double taxation" is unfair. While almost all homeschoolers would like to be free of the tax burden of public schools they do not use themselves, a significant number of homeschool leaders are concerned about any effort to get benefits from the government. Most homeschool leaders agree that vouchers (direct payments from the government to private or homeschools) are unacceptable because of the controls and loss of freedom that comes with the money. As an alternative, HSLDA recommends another vehicle: educational tax credits. Parents and individuals who provide for a child's education should be allowed to keep some of their tax money that would otherwise have been used to fund public education. This goal could be accomplished through a tax credit. Educational tax credit legislation can typically be divided into two categories: tax credits for individuals or corporations who contribute to a non-profit scholarship fund and tax credits reimbursing parents for educational expenses incurred for their children. Arizona passed an educational tax credit law which falls into the first category while Minnesota and Illinois passed a tax credit falling into the second category. Education tax credits offer several benefits: > Educational tax credits will give parents true choice in education - This tax credit will help reduce the "double tax burden" on parents who choose private or home education. > Education tax credits will benefit public schools - By encouraging students to attend private schools or homeschools, the tuition tax credit will reduce overcrowded public school class sizes and the student-to-teacher ratio, making more teachers available to public school students. > Education tax credits will benefit low-income families - Most educational tax credit proposals provide a credit for businesses and private individuals who contribute to a nonprofit scholarship fund, which are usually dedicated to helping low-income families. This type of credit provides an incentive to help give low-income families true choice in their children's education. For more information on educational tax credits, see our memorandum at http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3661 . 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