With the “one big beautiful bill” now law, a national school choice scholarship tax credit program will launch in 2027. A school choice advocate says Illinois should opt in.
Part of the expansive measure is a 100% federal tax credit for individuals donating up to $1,700 to scholarship granting organizations to fund school choice programs for families making no more than 300% of an area’s median gross income.
Jonathan Greenberg, CEO of scholarship granting organization Empower Illinois, said the program is monumental, even if the individual tax credit is only $1,700.
“That means you can write a check to a scholarship granting organization who will give that money to a kid so they can go to private school and you get $1,700 off your federal taxes,” Greenberg said.
The law President Donald Trump signed on Independence Day says states that voluntarily elect to participate “shall provide” a list of the scholarship granting organizations that meet the requirements.
“The election under this paragraph shall be made by the Governor of the State or by such other individual, agency, or entity as is designated under State law to make such elections on behalf of the State with respect to Federal tax benefits,” the law says.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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