#Government
Target:
The Joint Committee on Taxation
Region:
United States of America

Every year the United States Government authorizes tax breaks for useful, necessary, and helpful expenditures of individual tax payers. Every year divorced or separated parents pay child support that is not optionally and in fact very purposeful but cannot be deducted on income tax returns.

Since only one parent can claim each child, typically the non-custodial parent i.e. child support payee must pay taxes on income they will never see. On the flip-side the custodial parent, dependent-claimer, and support receiver gains tax-free support payments guaranteed by local courts.

We, the undersigned, call on the Joint Committee on Taxation and Congress to change the laws surrounding federal taxation to allow for deductions of mandatory child support payments.

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The Tax Breaks For Child Supporters petition to The Joint Committee on Taxation was written by Christopher Solis and is in the category Government at GoPetition.