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Education Tax Credits Would Save States Billions
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U.S. Newswire
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July 1, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Cato Institute, +1-202-789-5200
Cato study offers tool for evaluating fiscal impact of tax
credits
WASHINGTON, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Education tax
credits -- programs that allow individuals to deduct education
expenses from their tax liabilities, or corporations to do the same
for donations to scholarship funds -- will save money for states
that enact them, finds a new study from the Cato Institute.
In "The Fiscal Impact of a Large-Scale Education Tax Credit
System," Andrew Coulson, director of Cato's Center for Educational
Freedom, and Ball State University economist Anca Cotet estimate the
effect that model legislation for tax credits would have ...