by David Safier
This is the first in what will be a continuing series of reminders between now and the end of the year.
Give your $200 ($400 per couple) public school tax credit before December 31!
Here, let me make it easy for you. Here are the tax credit web pages for 4 local districts.
Follow any of those links, choose a school and give. You'll get it all back as a direct tax credit on your Arizona taxes — if you owe at least as much as you give.
You can give less than the maximum as well.
My recommendation: Give to a school with predominantly low income students. Those kids' parents can't afford to give them the kinds of enrichment higher income students take for granted. Also, in a perverse economic irony, the schools with well healed families get the lion's share of the tax credit donations. TUSD has a breakdown of the money that's gone to all its schools for the past 5 years to make it easy to give to schools that get the least in tax credit dollars.
Anyone who wants to advocate for a specific school, make a comment on this post. I'll move some of the recommendations to the main page.
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