DEADLINE MONDAY-- **Action Alert*** CHILD TAX CREDIT

There's Still Time to Sign an Important Letter to Increase the Child Tax Credit for 13 Million Children.

New Deadline: Monday, July 14 at 5:00 p.m. eastern time

Did you know that a parent working 30 hrs. a week for 50 weeks a year at $7.25 earns too little to qualify for the Child Tax Credit?

Show Congress that groups representing millions of advocates want poor children to get help they urgently need through the Child Tax Credit.

Please have your Organization sign a letter to make the Child Tax Credit reach many more working families. We strongly encourage organizations from across the country to sign. That includes state affiliates of national groups!

Not with an organization, but still want to speak out?
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/125/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25071

Background: Middle- and many upper-income families receive a $1,000 Child Tax Credit (CTC) for each child age 17 and under. Some poor working families who do not owe federal income taxes benefit from the CTC, but current law requires they have minimum earnings of $12,050 to receive at least a partial credit. If their earnings are lower they are too poor to qualify! Further, every year the minimum is adjusted upward for inflation. It started at $10,000 in 2001; the annual increases have excluded low-wage-earners every year.

Congress is working to extend certain tax benefits to corporations and individuals. The House has already passed a tax bill (H.R. 6049) that includes a big improvement for low-income families: it lowers the minimum for receiving CTC to $8,500 and removes the inflation adjustment. Families of over 13 million children would become newly eligible to receive the credit or would receive larger credit under the House bill. The Senate has not acted, but Finance Committee Max Baucus (D-MT) has introduced a bill with a $10,000 minimum. The families of more than 1.5 million children would either receive no CTC or a smaller refund at the higher $10,000 level. Congress must not delay in enacting tax legislation that includes the $8,500 refundable CTC threshold and ends annual inflation increases.

To sign your organization on the letter go to: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/125/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1294. Please sign only if you are authorized to do so by your organization!

Individuals can send an email to their members of Congress by here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/125/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25071.

Please forward this email to others in your network.

Children and their families should not be denied the Child Tax Credit because they don't earn enough.

Thank you!



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Please forward this e-mail!

Doeesn't look like this is gonna get beyond 3 responses..

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What will we tell the children?????

request of our Govt. to include more children in the child tax credit.

among "progressives".

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which frankly I wouldn't care to waste time on. No one making that much money owes taxes, therefore a tax credit does NOTHING to help them.

How about taking time to write congress for something that actually would help? Most employees of retailers, for example, can get written up or fired if they go in to overtime. How about making that illegal?

aren't worthy of your time.

Good bye.

So would you like to actually explain how taking time to change the tax code so someone who owes NO TAXES can claim a credit is going to help anyone? If I owe ZERO taxes I can claim all the credits I want - it does NOTHING for the bottom line.

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Thanks Bobbo - this is what is important.

Thanks for posting the information!

At $10,875 dollars a year you won't owe any taxes. I don't think you understand what a tax credit is. Why would you want to claim ANY credit at all? You don't owe anything therefore claiming a credit does absolutely nothing for you.

K & R

when I got this email. Thank's for posting!!

That's great..... please post them here on DU, to get whatever action can be generated here.

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and here is one I posted yestereday. It could use some help!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3599776&mesg_id=3599776

PS: Will you please PM me or can I PM you?:hug:

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Thanks!

:yourock: :loveya: :yourock:

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how those who make too little to pay taxes would benefit from a tax credit?

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If you didn't earn enough you can still get the EIC and even if you did earn enough you can get back more than what you paid in.