Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill creates substantially expands the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit by increasing the maximum credit rate to 50%, more than doubling expense limits, adding inflation adjustments, and making the credit refundable. It relies on tax credits. The main policy areas are Taxation and Social Welfare.
Who Benefits and How
Working families with children or dependents could see lower costs, Lower and middle-income families (under $125,000 AGI) could gain revenue opportunities, and Child care service providers could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal government could face higher costs.
Key Provisions
- Creates substantially expands the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit by increasing the maximum credit rate to 50%, more than doubling expense limits, adding inflation adjustments, and making the credit refundable...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill creates substantially expands the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit by increasing the maximum credit rate to 50%, more than doubling expense limits, adding inflation adjustments, and making the credit refundable.
Key Policy Areas
Taxation, Social Welfare
Primary Purpose
The bill creates substantially expands the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit by increasing the maximum credit rate to 50%, more than doubling expense limits, adding inflation adjustments, and making the credit refundable.
Policy Domains
Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act
Identified Gains
- Working families with children or dependents
- Lower and middle-income families (under $125,000 AGI)
- Child care service providers
Identified Costs
- Federal government
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Smith (for herself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Wyden, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Lower and middle-income families (under $125,000 AGI), Working families with children or dependents
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
50 percent reduced (but not below the phaseout percentage) by 1 percentage point for each $2,000 by which the taxpayers adjusted gross income exceeds $125,000
20 percent reduced (but not below zero) by 1 percentage point for each $2,000 by which the taxpayers adjusted gross income exceeds $400,000
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