Since 1997, the adoption tax credit has helped tens of thousands of parents offset the high cost of adoption, making it possible for them to provide children with loving, permanent families - the?adoption tax credit is set to expire on December 31, 2012.
Whether you have been fortunate to access the credit on your own adoption journey,?hope to access the credit in the future or simply care about continuing to?create more homes for children in need,?you can help save the adoption tax credit by writing or emailing your member of congress and telling him/her why saving the adoption tax credit is?important - tell congress why you care because your members of congress value your voice!
Congress must act now to pass legislation that will protect and extend the adoption tax credit and encourage the right of every child to grow up safe and loved in a family of their own. You can find your Representative and Senators? contact information by visiting:
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm or www.house.gov/representatives.
On April 17, Representative Bruce Braley introduced the Making Adoption Affordable Act (HR 4373). If you are contacting your Representative?s office, ask your Representative to become a co-sponsor of HR 4373. There is no companion legislation in the Senate yet, so you can simply ask your Senators to support an adoption tax credit that is inclusive, refundable, flat for special needs adoptions, and permanent.
If Congress does not take action, the current adoption tax credit will expire at the end of 2012. The credit will be reduced to $6,000, and will only benefit the few families that adopt children with special needs and have qualified adoption expenses. Most families adopting children from foster care, intercountry adoption, and domestic infant adoption will not receive any benefit. Without the adoption tax credit, many parents hoping to adopt will be unable to do so, and others will face great financial hardship. The adoption tax credit is essential to ensuring that as many children as possible find the forever families they deserve and ensuring that those families are in a more stable financial position to provide an environment where children can thrive.
The adoption tax credit must be extended to help as many children as possible find the permanent, loving family they need and deserve. And for 2012 it should be made refundable again so that most adoptive families will benefit from it. The best adoption tax credit would be permanent, refundable, inclusive of all types of adoption, and remain a ?flat? tax for children with special needs.
On behalf of the countless children waiting to be adopted, and the many thousands of families that stand to benefit from the adoption tax credit, please take action on this important issue. To make this task?even easier, you can find sample emails/letters/op-eds at http://adoptiontaxcredit.org/advocate/
Thank you!
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