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The Employee Child Bill
West Virginia helps companies pay for employee child care
Providing tax credit to corporations for existing employer-provided child care facilities
Good for everyday people ·
This bill would give companies money back on their taxes for running child care, which could make child care cheaper or easier for working parents.
Our take
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This bill would help working families by making it easier and cheaper for companies to offer child care at work. When businesses get a tax break for helping with child care, it can mean more spots for kids or lower costs for parents. This is a good thing for families who need help finding safe places for their children while they work. Some might say that giving tax money back to companies means less money for other state programs. But supporters believe that helping companies provide child care is a smart way to help the economy and support parents at the same time.
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The facts
What the bill actually says, no spin.
- The bill would give a tax credit to companies for the costs of running existing child care at their workplaces.
- This credit would cover 100 percent of the costs of running the child care, after counting any money paid by employees.
- The tax credit would apply to both corporate and personal income taxes.
- If a company does not use all the credit in one year, they could use it for up to five more years.
- The child care facility must mostly serve children of the company's employees.
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