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2008 Homeschool Legislative News
Opposition to Honda
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HONDA Information
- HONDA Alert
- HONDA Analysis
- HSLDA response
- Stevenson Comments
- Information Bulletin
- Legislative Alert
- HSLDA Summary
- Read H.R. 2732
- Read H.R. 1562
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California: Income Taxes: Credit (private school and home school)
AB 2605 - introduced by Assemblyman Nakanishi. Income taxes: credit: private school and home school.
Families choosing to send their children to private schools or that homeschool their children are faced with twice paying for their children's education.
Not only do parents pay for their child's private or home education, they must also pay their taxes for public schools, even if they do not agree with the teachings in government schools.
AB 2605 (Nakanishi) will help families in this situation by granting them a yearly tax credit for each of their children. Starting in 2009, AB 2605 would authorize a credit of $500 for each child of a taxpayer in grades kindergarten to 12 attending a nonpublic school.
A "qualified nonpublic school" means a private primary or secondary school, or a home school, grades kindergarten to 12, located in this state.
An alert went out today from Capitol Resource Institute (CRI), in support of tax credits that will help families provide a quality education for their children. CRI is asking people to contact their assemblyman and urge them to support education choice in California.
California homeschoolers should contact their statewide homeschooling organization before supporting this bill. Currently, California law does not contain any definition for the term "homeschool" in any form. This piece of legislation will introduce new language that has never been apart of California law and could open the door for nefarious regulations.
AB 2605 will be heard in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee sometime in early May.
