Focus Tax Incentives on the Students Who Need Them

Autor/in	Dynarski, Susan M.
Titel	Focus Tax Incentives on the Students Who Need Them
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 53 (2007) 50, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Tax Credits; Incentives; Access to Education; Low Income Groups; Paying for College; Funding Formulas; Financial Policy; Policy Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Steuerermäßigung; Anreiz; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Studienfinanzierung; Funding; Finanzierung; Fiscal policy; Finanzpolitik; Politikfeldanalyse
Abstract	In 1997 Congress crafted an ambitious set of higher-education tax incentives that the House of Representatives and Senate are now revisiting. Millions of students each year receive the Hope tax credit and the Lifetime Learning tax credit. They are now firmly planted in the college-finance landscape. But according to the author, higher-education tax incentives can increase college attendance only if they put money into the hands of people for whom price is a barrier to college. Although tax incentives provide relief for middle- and high-income families with children in college, they do little for the neediest families. The author argues that, instead of tailoring education tax incentives for upper-income students at the most-expensive private colleges, the code should be simplified and focused on students who are from low-income families. Simplifying and focusing the tax incentives will allow education tax programs to serve their goal: opening the doors of college to those who have the ability but not the means to further their education. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10